Re: [gtk-list] How to hide the controls that manipulate a window.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

helgip@vortex.is (Helgi Petursson) writes:

> I would like to be able to display a modal dialog which can only be
> disposed of by clicking on OK button, and it should not be possible to
> manipulate the dialog in any way. Therefore I want to be able to hide
> the min/max and close controls as well as the drop down menu in the
> top left corner (or at least make them disabled).
> I know that I can set flags which disable shrinking/growing etc.
> but the controls still appear, and I dont like that behavior.
> How can this be done using GTK?

See the functions gdk_window_set_functions() and gdk_window_set_decorations().
There is an example of the latter in testgtk.c.

(They'll only have an effect if your window manager supports MWM hints)

Regards,
                                        Owen