On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:28, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>I was wandering: What would it take to create an application
> >>that could be "stuck" to another window? What I mean is that
> >>I would like this application's window to e.g. move along if
> >>the "mother" window is moved...
> >>Is that possible based solely on events from X, or would it
> >>require an entire redesign of blackbox?
> >
> > Look at the xprop code from the XFree86 sources.  It works by grabbing
> > the mouse and then determining which window you clicked.  Once you know
> > the window you know the window id.  With the id in hand you can select
> > events for that window as well as your own.  When the window moves, you
> > move.  When it hides you hide.
>
> Sure but where do I actually start? With Qt, or maybe just
> plain XFree86-programming...
>
> // Martin

I do not know QT at all so I can not comment on easy or hard it would be to 
implement this piece of functionality.

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