10.10.3 CreateNotify Events

The X server can report CreateNotify events to clients wanting information about creation of windows. The X server generates this event whenever a client application creates a window by calling XCreateWindow() or XCreateSimpleWindow().

To receive CreateNotify events, set the SubstructureNotifyMask bit in the event-mask attribute of the window. Creating any children then generates an event.

The structure for the event type contains:

typedef struct {
	int type;		/* CreateNotify */
	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;		/* parent of the window */
	Window window;		/* window id of window created */
	int x, y;		/* window location */
	int width, height;	/* size of window */
	int border_width;	/* border width */
	Bool override_redirect;	/* creation should be overridden */
} XCreateWindowEvent;

The parent member is set to the created window's parent.
The window member specifies the created window.
The x and y members are set to the created window's coordinates relative to the parent window's origin and indicate the position of the upper-left outside corner of the created window.
The width and height members are set to the inside size of the created window (not including the border) and are always nonzero.
The border_width member is set to the width of the created window's border, in pixels.
The override_redirect member is set to the override-redirect attribute of the window. Window manager clients normally should ignore this window if the override_redirect member is True.

Next: DestroyNotify Events

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