jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (01/12/90)
I was depending on the use of XPseudoRoot for an application I am writing
but am reluctant to use it because of the stern warnings at the top of the
source code.
Right. Pretend that it doesn't exist.
what makes it incompatible with future
releases of X (especially R4, from which it is notably missing)
It doesn't work well enough to justify the trouble that it causes. In
particular, events have the "wrong" root window (and root coordinates).
Trying to translate on the fly turned out to be very, very ugly, so we removed
it from our sources and urged that it be dropped from the ICCCM draft of the
time. The right way to solve the problem is to add a server extension.