Re: How to prevent windows to be raised at the top of the stack when clicked?

["Olivier Guillion - Myriad" <olivier myriad-online com>]

Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com> wrote:

> > Is there a way to prevent a clicked window from being automatically sent to
> > top of the stack ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You can use gtk_window_set_transient_for() to force stack ordering.

Thanks, Michael,

I already tried it, and it didn't work as expected.

To manage the stacking order properly, each window has to be set transient for 
the window below it in the stack. But changing the order in this "transient 
list" doesn't work as expected : sometimes windows remain at their previous Z-
order after the call. It seems that  gtk_window_set_transient_for()  is merely 
designed to manage dialog boxes that open over a document window, and not to 
apply changes to existing windows stack ordering.

I'm still trying to go further with this function though. So far, the only 
solution I could find with this function is, when something changes in the 
stack order, to delete the transient info of each and every window, then 
rebuild it entirely.

It seems to work, but it's not straightforward. I'll tell here the results of 
my experiments.

Regards,
Olivier

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