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Is it possible to move an X11 window outside of the desktop using xlib? For example I want to position a window at -300, -300 and do so using the XMoveWindow function.

XMoveWindow( dpy, win, -300, -300 );

So the desired result would be something like this:

+--------+
|   win  |
|     +--|-------------+
|     |  |             |
+--------+             |
      |     Desktop    |
      |                |
      |                |
      +----------------+

Except the window is moved to 0, 0 instead:

+--------+-------+
|        |       |
|   win  |       |
|        |       |
+--------+       |
|     Desktop    |
+----------------+

I can manually drag the window out of the screen beyond 0, 0 which makes me think it should be possible to do this with Xlib?

David Saxon
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    The window manager might be overriding your applications MoveWindow request. – Sam Varshavchik Jan 27 '15 at 02:17
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    Yup, you're correct. Just tested some more things. and setting the override redirect attribute allows me to move the window outside of the desktop. – David Saxon Jan 27 '15 at 02:28
  • Did you ever solve this problem? I'm facing the same issue but not quite sure how to get it working in code. – Dave Mar 19 '15 at 05:59
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    Yeah in order to let the window manager move the window out of desktop bounds you need to use the override redirect attribute on the window. But this comes with a new set of problems since the window manager will no longer do any work for you. – David Saxon Mar 25 '15 at 21:57

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