Re: Weirdness with Emacs' X window id

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Heslin" <address@hidden>

> wmctrl -l does not know of any window with the ID 0x1400015.
>
> Is this expected?  I don't know anything about these IDs -- I'm just
> trying to write a script to manipulate windows on my desktop, and
> it's quite difficult with this ID schizophrenia.
>
> Emacs is the only application I run that behaves like this.
>
> If it's not expected behavior, then it could be a bug in wmctrl,
> xdpyinfo, my X server, Emacs, or who knows where, so it would be
> interesting to see if anyone else sees this.

I do not know about GNU/Linux but it sounds to me like Emacs have a
background window (maybe for managing multiple frames?) and this is found by
one of the programs you use. So maybe there is a bug in one of those
programs?

But this is just a guess from what I have seen on w32.