Re: How to display GTK app on the top?

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:54:38PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > (Also, am I missing something, or is there nothing in the current
> > > version of the Window Manager Specification to let you specify that a
> > > window must always be on top?)
> > 
> >  No, there is a gnome window manager speicification (or something like that)
> > available on gnome.org,
> 
> Well, there's
> 
> 	http://developer.gnome.org/doc/standards/wm/book1.html
> 
> which does mention the "always on top" stuff.

 Yes, that's it.
 
> > that documents additional atoms that window manager
> > should try to support. gnome_winhints_* just uses winhints listed in that
> > document.
> 
> "Additional" as in "over and above the Window Manager Specification at
> 
> 	http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec.html
> 
> " (that being the one to which I was referring)?
> 
> If so, I think some of the stuff specified by the GNOME window manager
> spec is supposed to be in the freedesktop.org window manager spec,
> although not all of it necessarily is (e.g., the WIN_LAYER_xxx stuff).

 Hmm, probably you are right.
 
> > It's very interesting and useful spec (for example, it allows
> > setting window app state to something like WIN_APP_STATE_DISK_TRAFFIC1,
> > WIN_APP_STATE_ERROR1, WIN_APP_STATE_FATAL_ERROR1,  WIN_APP_STATE_WAITING1,
> > WIN_APP_STATE_PERCENT0[0-9]0_2 that in future can allow very inteligent
> > handling of windows (like playing predefined sounds when window state becomes
> > WIN_APP_STATE_FATAL_ERROR or WIN_APP_STATE_PERCENT100_1).
> 
> None of those appear to be mentioned in
> 
> 	http://developer.gnome.org/doc/standards/wm/book1.html
> 
> so maybe there's another spec hiding somewhere.
> 

 I got these constants from gnome-winhints.h, so probably there is some
standard behind them (probably undocumented :).

 Best regards,
  -Vlad