Re: perl gtk window always on top




On Apr 27, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Bert Verhaeghe wrote:

is it possible to show a gtk dialog from within a perl script that is
above all other open windows (and especially a full screen rdesktop
session)?

That will depend entirely on your window manager.

set_keep_above() is just a hint. and, according to the docs, is not supposed to be used for drawing attention to dialogs, but more for things like making your music player stay visible over other windows. set_transient_for() is the traditional way to get a window to stay atop another window, but that's usually only within your app.

If the window is full-screen, the window manager may consider it to "own" the screen and disallow any other window taking it over in the z order.


Have you considered an audible notification instead of a visual one?


--
If the monkey could type one keystroke every nanosecond, the expected waiting time until the monkey types out Hamlet is so long that the estimated age of the universe is insignificant by comparison ... this is not a practical method for writing plays.
  -- Gian-Carlo Rota





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