Re: Is there a way to catch dialogs that pop up?

[Adam Monsen <haircut gmail com>]

Something like is probably up to the window manager. However, some
individual programs have a way of disabling their splash screen.

It would be helpful to prevent other programs from becoming the
topmost window anytime they want to; I don't know how to do this, but
it would sure make a sweet little applet.

I'd like to help!

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:47:04 +0100, Jan <jandersen informatica com> wrote:
> Is there any way (system wide) to catch the creation of dialog- and
> message boxes? A thing that constantly annoys me is the way some
> applications simply plonk their messages out on top of what you're doing
> as if nothing in the world could be more important. One good example is
> when I start my PC in the morning. First I start the mail client
> (evolution), which takes a long time because of slow server. In the mean
> time I do other things, like open an xterm and logging on to one of the
> UNIXes; it is highly disruptive when a stupid dialog box opens up in the
> middle of me typing a password, and demands immediate attention.
> 
> So, what I would like to is to be able to catch these interruptions and
> put into some sort of 'attention queue' - something like an applet with
> a list of dialogs that want my response. It ought to be simple enough, I
> think. Any ideas?
> 
> /jan
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