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    Replace MetaStackWindow with a 64-bit "stack ID" · 73573a85
    Owen W. Taylor authored
    Putting X windows and pointers to MetaWindows into a union had a number of
    problems:
    
     - It caused awkward initialization and conditionalization
     - There was no way to refer to Wayland windows (represented by
       MetaWindow *) in the past, which is necessary for the MetaStackTracker
       algorithms
     - We never even cleaned up old MetaStackWindow so there could be
       records in MetaStackWindow pointing to freed MetaWindow.
    
    Replace MetaStackWindow with a 64-bit "stack ID" which is:
    
     - The XID for X Windows
     - a "window stamp" for Wayland windows - window stamps are assigned
       for all MetaWindow and are unique across the life of the process.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736559
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