Re: "floating panel" window type

From: Haavard Kvaalen <havardk xmms org>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: wm-spec-list gnome org, <bill gkrellm net>, <peter xmms org>, <jakdaw xmms org>, <notting redhat com>
Subject: Re: "floating panel" window type
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:20:13 +0200 (CEST)

On 16 Jun 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Assuming panels are always on top, a change I'm planning, XMMS and
> gkrellm could probably just set their type to DOCK and go with that,
> just like a panel. The one problem there is that DOCK windows are
> never decorated.

kwin has a non-standard _NET_WM_STATE atom called
_NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP that XMMS will use if it is available.  This
does exactly what XMMS wants.  I like this approach better than setting
the type to DOCK.

 - Håvard

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