Finishing Composite to handle transformed windows

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Jan 9 14:18:58 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:29 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:

> Reparenting top-level override redirect windows to a pseudo-root window
> is problematic: some applications can't handle this. emacs is one app
> that I know of which has a problem with this.

The pseudo root extension provided a new connection on which a fake root
window was presented as the root, so no 'reparenting' is required. Emacs
works fine with this extension, or at least did when I wrote it many
years ago.

-keith

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