RE: [gtk-list] Re: modal windows ?

["O'CONNOR, Steve" <SOCONNOR baea com au>]

The  'staying on top' part is unfortunately NOTHING to do with the GUI
lib that you are using.

It is the window manager that makes the decision about what window goes
on top, and the window manager typically uses run-time user-defined
options to decide which window lives on top of any other window. The
most common types being click to focus, mouse to focus, raise on focus.

You are no doubt used to using the _always on top_ pseudo feature in
that other GUI library, Win32.

There are some good reasons to not have modal windows always on top. One
thing that a real multi-tasking system should NEVER have though is the
concept of 'System Modal' windows that block all applications entirely.

Maybe what you need is to run something like KDE WM, and set the focus
management to 'click to focus' to acheive the sort of look and feel that
you are after.