Create a *real* top level window

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at rasterman.com> writes:
> ugh! horrible usability. one should not rely on vt switching as a

Agreed, this needs to be resolved.

>> The xterm spawned by root can still be used. It is ok in my use case
>> that it is not possible to move/resize this SAK "menu".
>
> it can only be used *IF* it happens to have been focused by the wm at that
> time... and you forget the cm. output updates can't be seen at all as long as
> its suspended. :) so the screen entirely will freeze (except for mouse cursor
> moving around)

Hmm. It works just fine here(tm). The show-window.c that I pasted does
set input focus among other things. Since socat is stopped before
xterm is started the wm does not have a chance to focus it anyway.