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>As Tim Janik pointed out, there are different cases, and
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> If you want the position of a widget
relative to its parent, you should use
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>widget->allocation.x</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>widget->allocation.y</TT
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> If you want the position of a window
relative to the X root window, you should use
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>gdk_window_get_geometry()</TT
>
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>gdk_window_get_position()</TT
> or
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>gdk_window_get_origin()</TT
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> If you want to get the position of the
window (including the WM decorations), you should use
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>gdk_window_get_root_origin()</TT
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> Last but not least, if you want to get a Window
Manager frame position, you should use
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>gdk_window_get_deskrelative_origin()</TT
>.</P
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>Your choice of Window Manager will have an effect of the
results of the above functions. You should keep this in mind
when writing your application. This is dependant upon how the
Window Managers manage the decorations that they add around
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