Well, the way the wm dock does things is it reparents the window with XEmbed, 
not sure if that would work for you or not

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 09:40:47 gasol wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm writing a compiz plugin that mimics the WindowMaker dock, but instead
> just being in 2d, I have cubes where icons and dockapps (actually any
> application) are rendered too.
>
> Now I'm wondering how can i hide the "real windows" that i dock and keep
> the decorator from drawing decorations on them?
> Since i need to get damage-events on the windows i assume i cant just unmap
> them either. =/
> I've been looking on the scale plugin but i didn't find anything there that
> helped me.
>
> Currently the docked apps are rendered both to the screen and my dock! Here
> is a screenshot of the problem:
> http://arlong-park.mine.nu/dock3.png
>
> atm I'm just using the  drawWindow function from the window, after i have
> scaled and rotated it.
>
> The second thing I'm wondering about is there any way to automagically
> forward the X events to the docked apps or do I have to write that code
> myself?
>
>
> //HÃ¥kan


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