Move a window

[Steven J Abner]

On Sat, May 31 2025 at 05:14:33 PM +0000, Carsten Haitzler 
<raster at rasterman.com> wrote:
> well you never said what you WANTED to achieve

In my original post:
And on the 3 tested this 'grab' won't work. It has confines placed on 
it from moving past edges or 'STRUT's where cursor gets separated from 
drag point (mouse location).

So I trying to move a window within the confines of the display or 
displays, not 10, 20 or xx number of pixels from the edge. To get 
window manager to understand the values passed to them or use them. To 
get the window to follow the pointer. Problem is creating an 
application and not knowing all tool kits and languages to move a 
window. It's kinda like using Alt+button, Super+button, or 
other-combos+button on different flavors to move a window other than 
the titlebar. I was forced to use this because one said it supported 
_NET_WM_MOVERESIZE but clearly didn't. Which lead to starting with the 
basics, Xorg bare, and twm.
Issue a XMoveWindow() or xcb_configure_window() and find out as I 
luckily did, that your application had its window stop 10 pixels from 
edge with pointer 200 pixels from grab location, yet works 100% of the 
time on the 3 distributions tested and designed on.

Is there a property I'm not defining to get window managers to 
understand what Xorg clearly does? XMoveWindow() or 
xcb_configure_window() is clearly defined! You move the window.
And even though they use these, how do I tell them to use these? What 
am I missing?

Sorry if original post sounded as complaint or wasn't as succinct as I 
thought.
Steve