Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-06-11 01:59:44 +0300 Armando Di Cianno <armando@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> On 2004-06-10 18:24:30 -0400 Charles Kerr <punt1959@msn.com> wrote:
> > I have been using Windowmaker, and like the feel.
> ...
> > Having both, the workspace seemed to overlap with WindowMaker.
>
> <snip>
> Actually ... is it feasible to have the icons draw right onto the root 
> window?  I ... *sigh* ... I run xscreensaver's on the root window, e.g. 
> `/usr/lib/xscreensaver/flurry -root`, and would love the ability for Desktop 
> to paint the root, but not create a "desktop window" that isn't the actual 
> root .... and if it just has to be so, Alt-Drag shouldn't be able to move it!
> <snip>

Is there a way to have a NSWindow which _windowNum is 0, that is, the X root 
window?
In XGServerWindow we have a -_rootWindowForScreen: method returning a 
gswindow_device_t structure that represents the root window; it is used in 
-window::: to set the root window for all the new windows.
I've tried to subclass NSWindow to override -_initBackendWindow: and then add 
something in XGServerWindow to setup all the stuff, but I can't because 
-_initBackendWindow: accesses windowmaps, a class variable of NSWindow.