Re: preventing moving/dragging of GTK windows

[Stuart Gilbert <stu better domain name>]

There are cases when a full screen unmovable window that cannot have 
anything above it is completely fine, very important in fact.
Say you have some sort of display screen on a public computer in a 
library or something and you need one application to search the book 
database but you don't want people to just sit there and play around on 
IRC all day.
You'd want the application to be full screen and unable to be closed by 
a standard user. Anything else would just be silly really.

Making things like that impossible is a bit of a silly idea. End users 
just have to show a bit of intelligence with the applications they run. 
Don't go around downloading ScreenBlocker-1.2.0-5 or something similar. 
Just use trusted software.
Fortunately not a lot of people seem to bother going to the trouble of 
creating makefiles and distributing stupid code that just blocks the 
screen for a bit of fun anyway.


Regards,
        Stuart Gilbert.


Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> > From: milton soto <miltonpsoto yahoo com>
> >
> > I just need to know how to prevent a GTK window, (that I created) 
>
> > from being moved or dragged to a different position on the screen. 
>
> Recently somebody else asked how an application can switch off
> the focus if a window gets focused, and somebody asked for a window
> that is always on top of any window.
>
> If I understand correctly, these features can be used to create
> very annoying applications. Now my questions:
>
> If I use an application which uses the above features, how do I get
> the control back? I mean, should the guy in the front of the computer
> be respected more than the application programmer?
>
> As an example: while doing google searches I ended up to a webpage
> which opened a full screen browser window. And sure that meant in
> Internet Explorer that the "x" (close) button was out of screen. And
> then that webpage created a timeout callback which created an
> advertisement page periodically, i.e., advertisement came back even
> if I closed its window. Only thing I could do was to reboot the MS
> Windows XP as at university I don't have a task manager or other
> privileges. No application should force one to boot the computer!!
>
> Simply, the IE respect the unknown guy at foreign site more than
> the guy who sits in front of the computer or the guy who owns the
> computer.
>
> I hope Linux nerds and geeks don't go by-the-book but gives control to
> users. This control could be located in the shared libs of GTK.
> (And if the application is compiled static, I would not run it at all.)
>
> Regards,
> Juhana
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