Re: Fix for tear-off toolbars

[Evan Lawrence <evan unix worldpath net>]

OK, I understand now, thanks! - I've gotten several emails on the
subject... Next time I'll double-check my suggestion, it's been a very
humbling experience ;) ... As for there not being a problem with having a
title-bar, personally I'd prefer it to not have any decorations (mostly
cause it takes the window a while to catch up with the mouse,) but would
recommend some kind of method of turning the title-bar on and off, if
that's possible... Also, I was thinking some way of telling it to stick to
a certain side of the screen (not overriding the virtual desktop of
course) would be a useful feature... Just a couple of thoughts on the
subject...


--
Evan Lawrence

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Federico Mena wrote:

> >  Wouldn't it be easier to just change the type of the float window to
> >  GTK_WINDOW_POPUP instead of using a motif wm hint? You might need to make a few
> >  changes so it displays the size correctly and doesn't squish (non technical
> >  term, I know) the  widgets, but since that essentially just sets
> >  override_redirect no wm that I know of will add decorations to it... 
> 
> That's the way the handlebox was originally implemented, and it
> doesn't work.  GTK_WINDOW_POPUP means you get an X window with the
> override_redirect flag set.  This means that the window manager is not
> supposed to touch that window.  Not only will it not add decoration,
> but it will not even move it around if the user changes virtual
> desktops, for example.
> 
> This leads to ugly results when you have a floating handle box and you
> change virtual desktops -- the handlebox will act as a `sticky'
> window.
> 
> The handlebox floating window has to be a transient window.  We are
> discussing how to ask the window manager not to decorate it, but
> that's a separate issue.  I think creating Gdk or Gnome abstractions
> for the Motif window manager hints is fine.
> 
>   Quartic
> 
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