Re: How to have a window stay always on top?

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 18:08, Elijah Newren wrote:

> > > Just set it as a MENU window, it'll be always on top. when creating a
> > > window, you can pass argument to the new() method. Check the doc
> >
> > It seems that Gtk::Window->new only supports window types 'toplevel',
> > 'dialog' and 'popup'. The 'popup' type will stay on top, but it has
> > no decoration and can not be moved. This is not what i'm searching
> > for.
>
> You could set the window type to DOCK.  This won't give decorations,
> but it does allow moving and make the window be on top.  I believe
> that there is not gtk+ function to do this (and thus probably no
> gtk2-perl function), so it would depend on whether there's perl
> bindings to Xlib.  gnome-panel provides a good example of how to do
> this in C (see the xstuff_set_wmspec_dock_hints function in
> gnome-panel/gnome-panel/xstuff.c), and if there are perl bindings to
> Xlib (in particular for XChangeProperty), then this example should be
> fairly easy to translate to perl.

There's the GdkProperty stuff though, which we do wrap. 
Gtk2/t/GdkProperty.t has example usage.  PerlPanel for example uses it
to make itself a strut that is not covered by maximized windows.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten