[xmonad] Is there a way to reparent a window manually?

[Platon Pronko]

Hi!

Tried adding all the event masks, no effect. Even more, even if I remove all events from the mask except X.ExposureMask then mouse movement and keyboard buttons still work.

Best regards,
Platon Pronko

On 2021-04-23 01:07, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:28 AM Platon Pronko <platon7pronko at gmail.com <mailto:platon7pronko at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It seems that this could be happening due to XMonad being non-reparenting (I ran the same app under XFCE, and it seems to work okay).
> 
> 
> This would not surprise me; it looks like they use Mono on Linux/Mac, and as yet there is no way to tell Mono that the window manager is non-reparenting so canvas widgets get messed up (they can't find themselves, since X11 uses window-relative addressing instead of screen-relative like Windows/.NET).
> 
>     Any idea about what am I missing? Maybe my event masks are wrong?
> 
> 
> You probably want all of the button-related events (see https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/events/mask.html <https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/events/mask.html>) so they'll be passed on to the child window.
> 
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