Re: Absolute screen location

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From: Ken Lee
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:29

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In article 22282@parc.xerox.com, fishkin@parc.xerox.com (Ken Fishkin) writes:
>How can a window find out where it is located with respect to
>the root window?
>    XGetGeometry tells a window where it is with respect to its
>parent, which is not the same thing.

Use XTranslateCoordinates()

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Ken Lee, klee@synoptics.com

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