On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 22:22 +0800, KC wrote: > it's X reparent problem. I just want to know if the patch I posted worthy to > apply or does XReparentWindow() do have such problem for some window > managers.
The problem is that without XEMBED you're doing something totally undefined/heuristic/race-condition-ridden, so yes it has a problem, but no there's no reasonable way to fix it. That's why this usage isn't supported. > And IMHO, although GtkSocket/GtkPlug may not design for kidnapping legacy > X applications ... it does work fine for such purpose. Specially, when using > such trick for text based interactive utilities such as gnuplot, GNU > Octave, Maxima ... etc > most of them don't know what's XEmbed protocal ... but they do worth > to kidnap :-) They may "work" but not reliably or via any specified mechanism, so this isn't something gtk wants to start trying to fix bugs in. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
