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Nicola:
Thank you for your response. > > > I'm working on the linuxcnc project using Pygtk 2.6- > > > > The operator screen I am working on is in fullscreen. > > When we use gtk.FileChooserDialog(), the menu bars show. > > What do you mean with menu bars? If that is gnome-panel (or > equivalent) this seems to me a window manager issue. I've yet > encountered this problem while using the oroborus wm. > Yes the bars on the very top and bottom. Using Gnome 2.30.2 Ubuntu 10.04 > > I have discovered that setting dialogs to popup instead of toplevel > > fixes this problem. I did this in the GLADE file (for a different dialog) . > > This is a bad work-around: see the doc [1] for more details. Are you referring to the comment about the limitations of using popup rather then toplevel (the window manager ignores it) that doesn't seem to be a big disadvantage that I can see at this time. > Furthermore, GtkWindow:type is a construct-only property and > gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new() does not give access to that > property, so (if you really wanted to) you should use something > like the Python equivalent to: > > g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_FILE_CHOOSER_DIALOG, > "type", GTK_WINDOW_POPUP, NULL); > Thanks I'll see if I can figure that out > But I'd try to use a proper fix instead, such as setting the > keep-above flag on the parent window and specifying it as parent > for the filechooser dialog. If not working, I'd check if I can > modify the behavior on the window manager side by using wmclasses. > Yes I was surprised and annoyed by the behaviour. I simplified the situation somewhat, for ease of conversation. The filedialog is part of another building block and so I will not always have control of it's parent window. I know nothing about wmclasses so I will do some research. Of course the other problem is the end user can change the window manager so I am looking for a solution that will work no matter what. Thanks again Chris M |