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<node id="356194" title="Howto Create a Root-Window with Perl" created="2004-05-25 09:20:27" updated="2005-06-03 11:45:09">
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stefan k</author>
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Fellow Monks,&lt;br&gt;
I've been running a transparent terminal with no borders displaying 'top' for years now and I'd like to extend the mechanism.  
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I know that programs like xpenguin, root-tail or root-portal found a way to detect the real root-window of the current X-Session.  
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For me it would be sufficient to sent the appropriate WindowManagerHint to my Sawfish-WM.  I thought it should be possible with PerlGTK but I didn't find a way to do such.  
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I am not (yet) limited to using PerlGTK, I might as well use the QT or Tk-bindings.  I'm just looking for a way to send WM-hints in perl.
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Any suggestions?
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;small&gt;Regards...&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.skamphausen.de"&gt;Stefan&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;small&gt;you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion&lt;/small&gt;
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