Re: gtk-app-devel-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 47

["Abdellah Rhanizar" <rhani00 gmail com>]

How to ensure that all alert's messages genereted by the window manager are
in the WINDOW_TOP_LEVEL status, and witch file indicate for the developper
this status.
Finally, i want to know if there are a way to modify the behaviour of the
window manager concerned this matter.

Cordially;

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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:04:33 +0000
> From: tomas tuxteam de
> Subject: Re: TOP_LEVEL_WINDOWS order of the window messager
> To: sunzysjzri <sunzysjzri gmail com>
> Cc: "gtk-app-devel-list gnome org" <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>,
>         matchbox-help <matchbox+help openedhand com>
> Message-ID: <20061129090433 GB23039 www trapp net>
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> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:50:53AM +0800, sunzysjzri wrote:
> > hi,
> > how to change the TOP_LEVEL_WINDOWS order of the windows manager?
> > I want reorder the windows stack of Xserver to reliase the function
> "window switch", i got the
> > client list of window manager, but how to reorder it ?
> > send an event or use Xlibs API ?
>
> Is that for a window in your application? Then see
> gtk_window_set_keep_above() [1].
>
> If you want to play with all windows, then you'd better read on ICCCM [2].
>
> Note that you can only ask the window manager to do something. Some
> window managers will follow your advise, some not (and there are even
> ones which never stack windows, so there is no "above" or "below").
>
> Personally, I prefer window managers which follow *my* advice first and
> the application's second. But it is a matter of taste, that's why there
> are many window managers.
>
> - ----------------
> [1] <
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-keep-above
> >
> [2] <http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/>
> regards
> - -- tom?s
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