Re: how to intercept click on titlebar?

[Ted Huntington <thunting@xxxxxxx>]

Can I use a XSelectInput on the Root Window?  I don't need to intercept 
the buttonpress events on other windows or the titlebar, I only need to 
know when they happen.  I made a file menu for a window and need to 
close the file menu when a button is released on the titlebar or a 
different window (although then, I can use the focusout event).   I wish 
button click on the titlebar could be recognized.  The menu windows are 
"override_redirect" windows.

thanks
Ted


Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Ted Huntington <thunting@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  
>
> > How can I intercept or detect when a buttonpress event has happened on
> > a window menubar, or outside the windows I created in Xwindows?
> >    
>
> The window decorations are created by the window manager.  The usual
> way is to create a window slightly larger than the window being
> decorated, and reparent the client window into that one.  What you
> could do, is to listen to the events you want from the parent of your
> window.  I'd strongly advise against it, though.  Users expect
> consistent behavior when clicking window titles and similar, and
> circumventing that isn't nice, even if you manage to get along with
> the window manager about it.
>
> What is it you are trying to accomplish?  Maybe there is a better
> solution.
>
>  

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