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

[Brandon Allbery]

For what it's worth, I have the packages window open and, whether placed
away from the window (via PlaceHook) or over it, I see no problems with
menus in either window.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:50 AM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm trying to reproduce your issues with my config, but I have no idea
> what I'm doing. Can you upload a sample I can try to work with?
>
> Someone who plays Mono-based games reports they work fine with xmonad,k so
> that may not be the problem. Two others I'm aware of are:
>
> (1) Your config does not have `ewmh` configured (this seems unlikely); or
> (2) you're having `_NET_WORKAREA` issues.
>
> If it's EWMH, simply configuring the `ewmh` combinator should fix it. But
> quite a lot of stuff required EWMH these days, so I can't imagine you
> haven't run into this before.
>
> `_NET_WORKAREA` is complex. I'm told by other people that they have no
> problem with it (more correctly, without it), but I find I need to set it
> for some things (notably, KDE menus) to work properly. The difference may
> be that I have a status bar at the top of my screen.
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:05 AM Platon Pronko <platon7pronko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > brandon s allbery kf8nh
>> > allbery.b at gmail.com <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>
>>
>
>
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