From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Hearn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: override_redirect of X Window System Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:32:14 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030917.114532.18698789.kazu@iijlab.net> <200309191610.h8JGADT5028000@stubby.bodenonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064320342 11052 80.91.224.253 (23 Sep 2003 12:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 14:32:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1mL6-00022x-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:32:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1mRM-0000tM-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:38:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A1mKJ-0002Tn-Mh for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1mJu-0002TZ-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1mJs-0002TM-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A1mJs-0002TF-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1mJP-0002BF-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:30:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1UTS-000600-00 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:27:46 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1UTs-0002kx-00 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:28:12 +0200 Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16576 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16576 On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:24:15 +0200, Sir Jan D. scribed thus: > It is true that Metacity (the current Gnome window manager) does not > allow you to move windows above the screen (i.e. y coordinate less than > zero), but this is a Metacity bug. Maybe you can run another window manager? > Some that even allows you to specify that the window in question shall > have no decorations at all (most except Metacity can handle this)? It is not a metacity bug - there is an agreed upon protocol for full screening windows, and override-redirect is not it. To Kazu: I'd recommend you research the latest EWMH specification, that will show you how to properly fullscreen windows. thanks -mike