Re: Pending 1.2 stuff (Gush!) (Fullscreen + Xinerama)

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> > Imo, you should not ever be putting windows above the active fullscreen
> > window. Fullscreen windows tend to come along with a grabbed keyboard
> > and mouse, which means that the user is going to be unable to raise
> > his fullscreen window back to the top without exiting and rerunning it.
>
>
> Well, many many years ago, in my dreaded times of windows using (shudder), I 
> was making powerpoint presentations for my sci. research that were able to 
> pop up avi flicks at the click with the mouse on an active (full)screen 
> (presentation's) element. The window with the flick _had_ to go above the 
> fullscreen powerpoint. At that time, the fullscreen releaved mouse and 
> keyboard grab too (as long as the focus was on the flick window).

Applications using the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN should not be using 
keyboard/mouse grab to get focus, but should rely on normal WM mechanisms.

The WM should put it on top, with geometry of the screen (ignoring any 
constaints from WM_NORMAL_HINTS).
Which reminds me, how should this work for Xinerama?

MArk