Re: Creating a non-focused window

[James Scott Jr <skoona verizon net>]

Tom,

This might be a opportunity to explore and use 'libnotify' and have a
libnotify-popup present your message.

As for your original question, I don't have an answer that I treid and
know for certain will work.  However, This is what I would try by
changing my code; 1. I would reread the gtk api to understand if
gtk_widget_show() vs gtk_widget_show_all() vs gdk_window_present() would
make the messagebox/window visible without redirecting focus.
Otherwise, I would disable-focus, show the window, re-enable focus. 

On the other hand, libnotify should like the best way to proceed.  Here
is a quick sampler.

James,

** required rpms: yum install libnotify libnotify-devel

BEGIN CODE:
/* notice.c  
    
  Compile Command:
   $ gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs libnotify` -o notice notice.c
   
  Usage:
   $ ./notice -s 5 -t "title of messagebox" -m "message in the box"
   or 
   $ ./notice --help

*/

#include <libnotify/notify.h>

/* cmd line var pointers */
static gchar   *gd_pch_title;
static gchar   *gd_pch_body;
static gchar   *gd_pch_icon;
static gint     gd_i_seconds;

int main(int argc, char * argv[] ) 
{
    NotifyNotification *nctx;  
    GError  *gerror = NULL;
    GOptionContext *context = NULL; /* --help message for command line
*/
    GOptionEntry entries[] = {
      {"title", 't', G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&gd_pch_title,
         "Title text on msg box", "Title goes here!"},
      {"message", 'm', G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&gd_pch_body,
         "Message body text", "message"},
      {"icon-name", 'i', G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
&gd_pch_icon,
         "icon to include next to message",
"gtk-dialog-info ...-warning ...-error"},
      {"show-seconds", 's', G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN, G_OPTION_ARG_INT,
&gd_i_seconds,
         "seconds to display message", "10"},         
      {NULL}
    };
    
    /* Get command line parms */    
    context = g_option_context_new (
                " - Commandline Notification Utility"
                " GPL2 [2008] <Skoona users sourceforge net>");
    g_option_context_add_main_entries(context, entries, NULL);

    g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options(context, FALSE); 

    g_option_context_set_help_enabled (context, TRUE);

    if (!(g_option_context_parse(context, &argc, &argv, &gerror))) {
         g_warning ("Parse command line failed: %s", gerror->message);
         g_option_context_free(context);
         g_error_free(gerror);
         return (1);
    }


    if (gd_pch_title == NULL) {
        gd_pch_title = "Title really needs to be here.";
    }
    if (gd_pch_body == NULL) {
        gd_pch_body = "message goes here.";
    }
    if (gd_pch_icon == NULL) {
        gd_pch_icon = "gtk-dialog-info";
    }
    if (gd_i_seconds < 1 ) {
        gd_i_seconds = 10;
    }
  
    notify_init(argv[0]);

    nctx = notify_notification_new (gd_pch_title, gd_pch_body,
gd_pch_icon, NULL); 
    
    notify_notification_set_timeout (nctx, (gd_i_seconds * 1000) ); //
10 seconds

    if (!notify_notification_show (nctx, NULL)) 
    {
    g_warning ("failed to send notification");
    return 2;
    }

    g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(nctx));
    
    notify_uninit();

    return 0;
}

END CODE:



On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 17:26 -0700, Tom Machinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a simple GTK+ application that displays a popup window.
> 
> The problem is that whenever the window is displayed, it immediately gets
> ("steals") the focus. I would like to prevent that from happening: i.e., the
> window should be created and displayed, but it should not be focused, but
> instead focus should be retained by whatever window had it before the
> creation of the new window.
> 
> The only way I know to do that is by calling window.set_accept_focus(False)
> before window.show(). The serious flaw with that method is that the
> resulting window, while being prevented from stealing the focus, also can
> not receive focus at any later time, even by intentional user action.
> 
> Any better approaches?
> 
> Tom
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