"Daniel Secrieru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >    The root window isn't just another window.  It's the root
> > window - the desktop.
>     I'm sorry, but I still don't understand. If I have an one-window
> application, that makes sense: the root of the only window is of course the
> desktop.
>     But what if I have an multi-windowed application, with dialog windows
> and stuff? The root of a dialog windows is going to be another window and
> not the desktop. And then what's the point, for XQueryPointer(...) to return
> in the argument 'root_return' the root of the window (the 'w' argument) the
> pointer is in, if that is always the desktop?

Because on displays with multiple screens (independent, not merged with
Xinerama), each screen has a different root window.

Regards,
                                        Owen
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