On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: > On Monday 18 October 2004 01:45, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: > > > On Sunday 17 October 2004 21:21, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > > Normally, what the window manager does is look for windows that > > > > are created as immediate children of the root window. Then they > > > > reparent that window to one of their own virtual root windows. > > > > Full screen apps request a full size child of the root (and on > > > > top of the stack) and prevent the window manager from reparenting > > > > by setting the override redirect flag which prevents the window > > > > manager from getting notification about this window. > > > > > > Understandable. For example 2 however I'm not using a window manager. > > > What I'd like is to be able to have a full-screen MAME front-end, and > > > call a full-screen xmame application from there, which should just > > > position itself over the front-end. Is there any way to do this without > > > first destroying the front-end display? > > > > That would be the default behavior. A full screen window is nothing > > more than a child of the root window that's the size of the root window > > and moved to the top of the stack. The most recent window to have been > > XRaiseWindow'd will be the one that's visible. > > Hmm, any idea how I can get this done then? Within the front-end, xmame is > called, yet its window does not appear. How can I pull its window forward > within the program? Xmame should be calling XRaiseWindow. I would have expected it to be doing that already though. If you're confused about the heirarchy, "xwininfo -tree -root" will give you the window tree. Mark. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
