Every window manager creates a window over the root window?

[milosz derezynski]

err..

lol

On 11/30/05, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:31:02 +0000 (GMT) "Carlos Eduardo R. Di�D+Qgenes"
> <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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