Re: _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS

["Oleg Sukhodolsky" <son two gmail com>]

On 11/25/06, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> 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

yep :(

> 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)

great :)

> > 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.

Ok, I will consider this.

Thanks, Oleg.
> Cheers,
> Elijah