Re: WM features

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Monday 21 of January 2008, kettani lalla fatima zahra wrote:
> Hi all,
> i have a question about window manager's features. Is there any WM that can
> force an application specific window to behave as a system modal window?
>  *I know for example that mwm offers XmNmwmInputMode* resource that can be
> used by an application to set a system modal window, but i am interested by
> a customisation that could be done through WM without being invoked by the
> application it self.

 If by system modal you mean a window that will block all remaining windows, 
then that is generally, with very few exceptions, considered to be evil and I 
doubt you'll get support for something like that. Especially given that the 
few expections work like described in another answer, with override redirect 
and grab.

> And for screensavers, is there a WM that can allow a program to pop up over
> a screen saver?

 No. It is up to the screensaver what it allows, or rather not allows, to be 
visible.

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