Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!ucla-cs!tek From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: why does ... Message-ID: <13188@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 6 Jun 88 17:54:14 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU () Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 16 Why does XGetWindowAttributes (the Xlib function) actually make two protocol requests? (GetWindowAttributes and GetGeometry) After all there is an XGetGeometry Xlib function for the info from the GetGeometry request. So what's the point in making XGetWindowAttributes not correspond exactly to the info from the GetWindowAttributes request? Am I missing something obvious? -ted ARPAnet: tek@penzance.cs.ucla.edu UUCP: {randvax,ihnp4,sdcrdcf,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!tek