Finishing Composite to handle transformed windows

[Deron Johnson]

Keith Packard wrote On 01/07/06 10:51,:
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:20 +0100, Amir Bukhari wrote:>

>>For reason (as I think) we reparent all windows (also redirected like menus
>>...) to one Pseudo root window (PRW),
> 
> 
> We can't reparent OverrideRedirect windows, so we'd have to use
> something like the PseudoRoot extension that I developed years ago so
> that non-CompositeManager applications would see this new window as the
> 'real' root and create their override redirect windows within that.
> 
> That's certainly possible, but prevents us from launching a compositing
> manager to handle existing applications.

Reparenting top-level override redirect windows to a pseudo-root window
is problematic: some applications can't handle this. emacs is one app
that I know of which has a problem with this.