From: Donald Arseneau on
On Feb 23, 6:36 pm, rolance <tomstone...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> when I eliminate the window-manager controls entirely from the child
> window use:
>
> wm overrideredirect .child 1
>
> the child windows don't appear, any detail info I miss?

Don't know. I just tried it and it worked for me.
Are you sure you aren't being fooled by the child
window overlapping the parent :-)

You might try raise .child, although it wasn't necessary
for my test.

Donald Arseneau