Re: Reparenting cleanup

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On 2/25/07, Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi> wrote:

> Well, it looks a bit odd when I xtrace it: gnome-power-manager

Ah, i wasn't aware of the xtrace utility, i was trying to use GDB, and
being without net access in the last few days, it wasn't very easy. (=

> performs a MapWindow immediately followed by UnmapWindow on the
> preferences window in a quick sequence.  It also sends the synthetic
> UnmapNotify that is required by the ICCCM when a window is withdrawn.
> Sawfish is busily processing the MapRequest when the synthetic
> UnmapNotify arrives.  Apparently Sawfish fails to notice it and
> proceeds to map the window.

I've a lot of homeworks to do before i'm on par with the ICCCM and
EWMH stuff, anyway seems that gnome-power-preferences the first thing
it does when creating a new window is to hide it to avoid a
redrawing...


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Andrea