Every window manager creates a window over the root window?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:31:02 +0000 (GMT) "Carlos Eduardo R. Di$(D+Q(Bgenes"
<cerdiogenes at yahoo.com.br> babbled:

> Hi,
> 
> I read some time that some window managers creates a
> window over the root window and make all the
> operations over this created window.
> 
> What I want to know is if this operation is a
> standard? If it's not, I would suggested that it
> became. I really have no idea if it's very difficult,
> but it is a important thing for visually impared
> people, because if a magnifier is running in split
> screen mode a lot of space is lost. So, if all window
> managers first create an window, we can adopt a
> standard to achieve the ID of this window and have
> methods to roll it from under the magnifier when the 
> pointer goes near the magnifier and the roll it back
> when the pointer go far. This way we don't lost
> desktop space and the user can have a better spacial
> locality.

come again? i don't know what you are getting at in terms of neeeding to mvoe
windows the wm created out of the way for a magnifier etc. and i'm no6t sure
you have a good idea about this "window over root" and what root is and how
windows work. you need to explain in more detail your issue first. what's the
problem?

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