Re: _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

I think Lubos and Havoc have already addressed this pretty thoroughly,
but I have just one little comment to add...

On 11/21/06, Oleg Sukhodolsky <son two gmail com> wrote:
> 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

Sounds like you're using an old version of metacity (< 2.9.13 from a
quick NEWS entry grep).  This was a bug in metacity that was fixed a
couple years ago (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165243)

> don't want the window to be "override redirect" as well.
> 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 ;)

_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH is standard, I suggest using it.


Cheers,
Elijah