On 09/27/2010 05:36 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote: > 3) show-window is just a quick'n'dirty helper application to make the > xterm visible: alternatively, how about xterm -xrm 'XTerm.overrideRedirect: true' -geometry 100x100+100+100 and XSetInputFocus (dpy, PointerRoot, RevertToPointerRoot, CurrentTime); :-)