Create a *real* top level window

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:58:52 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>
said:

> 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.

do you have a cm? (composite manager) - sure. if you steal focus from the wm's
manageme3nt by doing it via another client pipe - yes. u can get focus. wm is
still hung. u cant move, resize, restack or do anything else.


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