override_redirect in window manager parent windows

[Tycho Kirchner]

Hi,
As seen in these issues [1, 2], there is some confusion, whether X11 window managers should set the override_redirect attribute (to True) in parent windows. According to Xlib's documentation [3] "window manager clients normally should ignore this window if the override_redirect member is True", however, this makes no statement about window managers setting override_redirect to True themselves. Thus, I would kindly ask for recommendations/best practices in that regard.

Thanks and kind regards
Tycho


[1] https://github.com/tycho-kirchner/fastcompmgr/issues/13
[2] https://github.com/pekwm/pekwm/issues/174
[3] https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/libX11/libX11.html