Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> wrote:
> Enrico Sersale wrote:
> > It seems that there are some restrictions in setting the event-mask
> > in XSelectInput(); I never used XLib and I didn't know this. I can't
> > get mouse and key events beacause the window manager has already
> > selected them.
> > 
> > Is there any way to go around this?
> 
> I've looked into this a bit on other occasions, and iirc, it's simply an
> X thing. As long as there's a window manager, it will (by definition) be
> listening for events on the root window, and no other program can get
> events from the root.
> 
> - Alexander Malmberg

Perhaps this is yet another reason why we need to have windows manage
themselves in GNUstep. ;)

Anyway, I still feel as though there should be some non-kludgy way to put a
window at the root level or to make it omnipresent.   Both InnerSpace and
GWorkspace, and possibly future apps need this functionality. 

GJC

=====
Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.


        
                
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