Re: no WM decorations with fvwm2

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 25, 2005, at 5:45 AM, zentara wrote:

> Thanks. Yes, Tk uses overrideredirect to do this.  I have found a way  
> to
> work around it, by using 'popup', instead of 'toplevel'   The 'move'  
> method
> to work.  Is a 'popup' window going to work like a 'toplevel' in most  
> cases?

Basically, the problem is that fvwm2 is not behaving nicely, as it  
predates the netwm spec (which was created to solve problems such as  
this, iirc).  'popup' is supposed to be used for "special" windows that  
aren't really normal and may be ignored by the window manager:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Standard- 
Enumerations.html#GtkWindowType



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