Re: _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE and _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN

[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz gmail com>]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin kde org> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:42:28 Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Someone just sent me an email, and I followed that by filing a bug[0]
>> asking about stacking order, namely how to get always-on-top windows
>> to stack above fullscreen ones for the eg, on-screen-keyboard case. It
>> seems like in the EWMH that this case is not handled, since it asks
>> for fullscreen windows to be above _NET_WM_TYPE_DOCK and
>> _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE windows [1]. This doesn't make much sense to me,
>> and I'm wondering what the correct implementation here is.
> There is somewhere a note that fullscreen windows are on top of everything else in case they
> are focused and are restacked below above and dock windows if not focused. This is also
> how kwin handles it. E.g. you can raise Yakuake (using above) over a fullscreen window as it
> will get focus immediately. The dock is also put on top of the fullscreen window in that case.
>

Yeah, this is how compiz handles it (at least for the docks). I guess
my question is more pertinent to the case of what we do with above
windows which are not in focus along with fullscreen windows - do we
stack them below the on-focus fullscreen window (breaks the on-screen
keyboard case) or do we stack them above?

> Cheers
> Martin
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Sam Spilsbury