Re: _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:21, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
> On 11/20/06, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
> > On Monday 20 November 2006 15:01, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Is there any _standard_ way to disable the Minimize (or Maximize, or
> > > > Close, whatever) menuitem on the system menu (accessible via
> > > > Alt-Spacebar or Alt-RightClick under Metacity)?
> > > > I've read the _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS spec, but it's not clear
> > > > whether this is client- or WM- managed hint...
> > >
> > > It is WM-managed; to disable things like that I think you have to use
> > > the old MWM hints.
> >
> >  Assuming the WM gives a damn about those. Hints are just that, hints and
...
> That's exactly true! However, I implement somewhat like a splash screen,
> and I don't wanna use the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH window type as it
> makes the splash window being "always on top" under metacity. And I
> don't want the window to be "override redirect" as well.

 So, in other words, if I'm getting it right, you're saying that you want to 
work around the window manager? Been there, done that, still suffering a lot 
from it. And you even want a standard for that.

> In this scenario, I can't tell the metacity not to show the menu when
> the user performs Alt-RightClick, on the other hand I have to disable
> the menu items I mentioned before. That's why I'd like to implement such
> a behavior. Does anyone have any ideas how?  Of course it would be
> better to have code which works with (almost) all WMs, i.e. use
> something from standard ;)

 What I think you actually really want is to a) complain to Metacity 
developers that their handling of TYPE_SPLASH is insufficient b) send them a 
patch c) use a WM that handles it better.

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