From: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>
To: enrico@imago.ro, Armando Di Cianno <armando@nycap.rr.com>
CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
--- Enrico Sersale <enrico@imago.ro> wrote:
> On 2004-06-11 01:59:44 +0300 Armando Di Cianno <armando@nycap.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> > On 2004-06-10 18:24:30 -0400 Charles Kerr <punt1959@msn.com> wrote:
> >> I have been using Windowmaker, and like the feel.
> > ...
> >> Having both, the workspace seemed to overlap with WindowMaker.
> >
> > <snip>
> > Actually ... is it feasible to have the icons draw right onto the root
> > window? I ... *sigh* ... I run xscreensaver's on the root window,
e.g.
> > `/usr/lib/xscreensaver/flurry -root`, and would love the ability for
> Desktop
> > to paint the root, but not create a "desktop window" that isn't the
actual
> > root .... and if it just has to be so, Alt-Drag shouldn't be able to
move
> it!
> > <snip>
>
> Is there a way to have a NSWindow which _windowNum is 0, that is, the X
root
> window?
> In XGServerWindow we have a -_rootWindowForScreen: method returning a
> gswindow_device_t structure that represents the root window; it is used
in
> -window::: to set the root window for all the new windows.
> I've tried to subclass NSWindow to override -_initBackendWindow: and
then add
> something in XGServerWindow to setup all the stuff, but I can't because
> -_initBackendWindow: accesses windowmaps, a class variable of NSWindow.
If you find the answer to this, please let me know as well.
InnerSpace.app,
the screensaver in my GAP project, needs to have a window which sits at
this
level as well.
GJC
=====
Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.
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