Re: embedding gtk widgets in a buffer

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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> - the selected window and other windows are not drawn the same way. The
>   selected window contains the real live widgets. The non-selected
>   windows show some kind of shadow copy of the widget, in the simplest
>   case a grey rectangle, more elaborately a bitmap copy of the widget at
>   the time the window selection switch was made.

And then of course there is the case that non of these windows is 
selected. That may be an important case too (for example with an 
embedded browser).