Removing decorations from a window

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Chris Green schreef:
> Further to my previous enquiry about removing decorations from a
> window, I seem to be between two opposing camps arguing about how this
> should be done but with neither camp giving me the tools to do it!
> 
> Since the decorations are created (and customised) by the Window
> Manager it seems to me reasonable that the Window Manager should offer
> options which allow one to say that certain windows should have no
> decorations.  However the xfce Window manager doesn't seem to offer
> this possibility.
> 
> So I go to the other end and look at the options in Xlib and there all
> I find is that, since the decorations are created by the Window
> Manager it's non-portable to have functions to remove the decorations
> from the client end.
> 
> Grrrr!
> 
> It's surely possible because some of the xfce utilities don't have
> decorations, maybe I'll end up having to look at the source code for
> them but I fear they go through GTK etc. and I want the basic Xlib
> functions to get a window without decorations.
> 
> The 'right' solution to my mind is that it should be configurable in
> xfwm, is this do-able?
> 

Well, I only know that for GTK there exists a function 
gtk_window_set_decorated ();. I presume this function uses either motif 
hints or hints from the EWMH specification defined on freedesktop.org.

	Jasper