10.11.2 ConfigureRequest Events

The X server can report ConfigureRequest events to clients wanting information about when a different client initiates a configure window request on any child of a specified window. The configure window request attempts to reconfigure a window's size, position, border, and stacking order. The X server generates this event whenever a different client initiates a configure window request on a window by calling XConfigureWindow(), XLowerWindow(), XRaiseWindow(), XMapRaised(), XMoveResizeWindow(), XMoveWindow(), XResizeWindow(), XRestackWindows(), or XSetWindowBorderWidth().

To receive ConfigureRequest events, set the SubstructureRedirectMask bit in the event-mask attribute of the window. ConfigureRequest events are generated when a ConfigureWindow protocol request is issued on a child window by another client. For example, suppose a client application calls XLowerWindow() to lower a window. If you had selected SubstructureRedirectMask on the parent window and if the override-redirect attribute of the window is set to False, the X server reports a ConfigureRequest event to you and does not lower the specified window.

The structure for this event type contains:

typedef struct {
	int type;		/* ConfigureRequest */
	unsigned long serial;	/* # of last request processed by server */
	Bool send_event;	/* true if this came from a SendEvent request */
	Display *display;	/* Display the event was read from */
	Window parent;
	Window window;
	int x, y;
	int width, height;
	int border_width;
	Window above;
	int detail;		/* Above, Below, TopIf, BottomIf, Opposite */
	unsigned long value_mask;
} XConfigureRequestEvent;

The parent member is set to the parent window. The window member is set to the window whose size, position, border width, and/or stacking order is to be reconfigured. The value_mask member indicates which components were specified in the ConfigureWindow protocol request. The corresponding values are reported as given in the request. The remaining values are filled in from the current geometry of the window, except in the case of above (sibling) and detail (stack-mode), which are reported as None and Above, respectively, if they are not given in the request.

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