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Looking for an uncommon technique

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I know that a Window Manager usually reparents the top-level window(s) of
an application, in order to wrap the window with various Window Manager
controls (resize, minimize, move, etc).

But, can an X application do that as well? If so, how?

The hypothetical scenario I'm looking at is an X11-based email client
that only displays text emails must now display html emails. Instead
of incorporating a full html parser and display painter, the email
client invokes an external application (a web browser) to present
the html content. BUT, rather than have the web browser pop up as
it's own window, the email client needs the browser to paint within
one of the email application windows. How does the email client
invoke the web browser, and capture it's top-level window?

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"
Not LLM output - I'm just like this.

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Looking for an uncommon technique Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2026-03-02 17:06 +0000
  Re: Looking for an uncommon technique Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> - 2026-03-02 20:32 +0000
    Re: Looking for an uncommon technique Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-02 21:11 +0000
  Re: Looking for an uncommon technique Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-03-03 05:11 +0000
    Re: Looking for an uncommon technique Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2026-03-03 14:38 +0000

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