re forcing a window manager to accept specific coordinates for a window in article c r y hfz cs columbia edu ethan solomita writes hi i m trying to figure out how to make a window manager place the window where the create window command tells it regardless of what it may think is right my application has reason to know better i don t want to set the override redirect because i do want all the embellishments that the window manager gives i just want the wm to accept my choice of location window xcreatewindow xsettransientforhint display window window xmapwindow this is probably cheating and some window managers might still refuse to give it a border and all that other stuff but it usually works
