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Re: Moving other application windows
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Re: Moving other application windows


  • Subject: Re: Moving other application windows
  • From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:26:12 -0700


On Jun 26, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

On 6/26/05, David Schneider-Joseph <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am trying to write a window manager which can manipulate
applications not belonging to its own process.


You cannot modify the properties of windows which do not belong to your process' connection to the window server.

Well, you can do some things via the Accessibility API.
By and large, though, nobody wants you to do invasive things. It is shunned by users and by Apple.


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