Re: low level X question

george williams (gcw++at++best.com)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:31:29 +0100

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I used the calls XGetGeometry and XtTranslateCoords. Both
calls seem to make a round trip to the XServer, so if performance
is an issue, I wouldn't recommend using em.

gw.
fakespace.com

At 09:41 AM 8/4/99 +0200, you wrote:
>george williams wrote:
>> Is there a way to query the current position and size of an arbitrary
>> X window relative to the root X window at any time, without having to
>> catch CONFIGURE_NOTIFY events for that window?
>
>Try using XGetWindowAttributes.
>
>Cheers,
>-Uli
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