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

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

Hi,

I made some more tests about the solutions that seem to be useable. It appears 
that they are not.

Reminder: the problem is to let the application manage window stacking (z-
order), instead of letting the Window manager do most of the job by itself.

- The gtk_windows_set_transient_for() function works but :

        . It's not possible to change anything in the window stacking order without 
rebuilding the whole list from scratch

        . When the list reaches 16 windows and more, this operation takes 
exponentially more and more time. With 20 windows, it takes several seconds. 
With 25, the whole system hangs.

- The gtk_window_restack() function works but :

        . When a window is clicked, it seems that the WM automatically send it to the 
frontmost position in the stack, without letting the application avoid that.

        . I couldn't find any way to prevent that behaviour from the WM by altering 
the .XDefault/.XResources file


Could it be possible to bypass GTK and to access the X structures and events 
directly? If yes, is it a way to prevent it to bring automatically the clicked 
window to front ?

Regards,
Olivier