Re: Top level windows and task bar..

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Chris Dickson" <chris pandromeda com> writes:
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> how do you create a top level window (ie a frame) that does not appear on the
> task bar ?  Under MSW there are style flags that force the window not to
> appear on the task bar.  Is this a GTK thing or more a X thing?

It's mostly an X thing. There is only recently support for it via the
Extended Window Manager Hints spec, on http://www.freedesktop.org.
Not all environments support it yet.

You would use gdk_property_change() to set the skip tasklist property
on widget->window, in a "realize" signal handler.

Havoc