> # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
> > Here is a question: Is is possible to ask the window manager
> > for the size of the decorations. Then I could kludge up some offsets
> > and subtract out the bizarre behavior.
> Well, sort of.
> You can find the parent window using XQueryTree() and then get the
> origins, border width, and window size using XGetWindowAttributes().
> I've done this and it works in the limited testing I've done (tvtwm
> and 4Dwm).
This doesn't seem to work on vuewm (HP-VUE); border_width is always returned
as zero.
You can, I think, subtract the form origin as returned by
XGetWindowAttributes() from the form position given by form->x and form->y to
get the top and side border widths.
Dick
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