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I've got a little graphical program that uses ConfigureNotify events to detect window resizing and to redraw the application. However, the resize events seem to come in somewhat slowly when dragging the window to resize, which causes the redraw to be jerky. Is there a way to configure this event rate? Barring that, is there a way to detect the start/end of a resize so I can defer redrawing until the final size has been reached? No, it is not possible to configure the event rate; they just come in as the X server sees fit. However, part of the jerkiness may be precisely because you are updating

I would like to create some windows on a linux desktop for simple layout purposes. I need to avoid user input going to these windows (and I suppose avoiding the windows from gaining focus should suffice for that to happen). I think that I can do this with the xprop command, by setting the WM_HINTS property, but I haven't found specific documentation on how to do it. By the way, for an mplayer window, I can do this by using the option -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null . I simply need a general solution which I can enforce at a low level on any application's window. Thanks! A window

I'm trying to write my own window manager. One issue I faced is that I don't understand how to define in which order windows should be displayed. The only means I found is to use xcb_configure_window . But it looks very limited to me: it only allows either to rise the window on top of all, or put it to the very bottom (no notion of layers or something). What a limited functionality :(. What I really would like to do is to define the window order and tell X about it. Or to define multiple layers of windows (e.g, normal, above all, below all). So I could rise (or lower) the window with respect

This is an exact duplicate of this question ; however the code linked in the accepted answer is nearly 11 years old, and this comment in the code leads to my duplicate question: The keysym -> UTF-8 conversion will hopefully one day be provided by Xlib via XmbLookupString() and should ideally not have to be done in X applications. But we are not there yet. Are we there yet? I'm aware of XwcLookupString , but something like... wchar_t unicode = XKeySymToWideChar( keysym ); ... would be much simpler and logical, and not require updating whenever KeySyms are added or changed. Is there a simple