On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
Under X11 you will normally run a window manager which will "reparent"
every window that it is supposed to manage. IOW, every visible window is
usually a child, yes.
I just brought up the remote possibility that you *might* have managed
to unmap your terminal window, somehow. In which case it can be tricky
to get it back because the basic purpose of that function is to make a
window "disappear". It turns out you probably didn't do this so let's
not go deeper down this rabbithole.
R.
René
I for one am glad you brought it up and if you'd indulge a simple
question, I'd like to explore this just a little further... Some of us,
like me, might find utility in such an ability, and I was unaware of it
but am now thinking about it...
BTW, even though I use Fedora (for now anyway!) Wayland doesn't work for
my 6-head display card, so I use x11.
I got it that to unmap I'd need to write a C program using Xlib and call
XUnmapSubwindows(Display *display, Window w); Not having written an
Xlib-using program before - or at least not in maybe 30 years! - and not
feeling a need to get deep into it, is / are there a presumption(s) of
which window / display is/are the target if they're directly associated
with the code that's running the unmap call? Same goes for calling
XMapWindow?
I'm contemplating a simple utility that would have a window disappear but
monitor the world and if / when conditions change would remap itself. If
this gets "deep in the weeds," I'll likely not bother but if the code is
simple enough, I might go for it!
Thanks René,
Richard
