Winamp disappears when you move it's location

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Oct 6 05:14:22 CDT 2009


Peter Dons Tychsen <donpedro at tdcadsl.dk> writes:

> I am posting your response, as you are not on CC in the bug.
>
>>>You can't do that sort of thing. If you really don't want the window
> manager to
>>>control the windows there's an option for it, but you can't have it both ways.
>
> I am not sure i agree. Everywhere i looked they referred to "override_redirect"
> as being *the way* to control this. And doing so is totally valid.

Absolutely not. You can do it at window creation time, but you can't
change the window back and forth just because you want some move request
to not be intercepted. If the window is under control of the window
manager then it has to receive all requests and handle them as it sees
fit.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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