<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks a lot Peter, I seem to be close but I must be missing something. I have a little program which I run, and its rendered without the window decorations. Then on the side I have my X11 client which tries to set the override-redirect to true, and then proceed to set a window border. After wiresharking my X11 requests I see that I am sending the right stuff to the x server. But for some reason it has no effect. I wonder if I am missing something? After the borderless window is created I send the following requests: <ul> <li>ChangeWindowAttributes with border pixel color set to red, and override-redirect set to true</li> <li>ConfigureWindow with border-width set to 5</li> </ul> Is there something I am missing? Thanks - John E Peter Harris wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4BDEFE3C.6020503@opentext.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2010-05-03 12:40, John Eke wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Depends on the window manager. You can always set "override-redirect" on your window, which will bypass the window manager entirely. But your users won't appreciate it if you override-redirect anything that isn't a brief splash screen or a simple popup menu. If you really want a solid frame of a particular colour inside your window, you can always paint one by hand. Peter Harris </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>