<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks a lot for your response Peter, is there any way around this though? I can get the window to render without decorations, but will this suffice? - John E Peter Harris wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BDEFAF7.6070906@opentext.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2010-05-03 11:58, John Eke wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Please help I am slightly confused. What does the border width, and border pixel properties do? I have an X11 client that sends a CreateWindow request, where I set values for border width and border color. I am not sure why I see no effect, could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong? Also how does a window border relate to the window managers decorations. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Most window managers remove the border of your toplevel window. So setting border-width is only going to be visible on your internal subwindows in most cases. Peter Harris </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>