Re: Creating a non-focused window

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Tom Machinski wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 cornell edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, it works here, using straight C.  I don't really know Python, so I
> > can't really say why it wouldn't work there.
>
>
> Thanks a lot Brian. Could you perchance paste the code you used?  If this is
> a bug in PyGTK, it would help to have a reference working implementation.

Hmm, when I write basically the same thing as your Python implementation 
in C, I get the same result as you -- the window grabs focus when it's 
shown.

However, another (much larger) piece of code I've written, xfdesktop 
(Xfce's desktop manager), works fine.  Maybe that has something to do 
with the fact that the window has a GTK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DESKTOP set 
rather than just being a normal window... not sure.  Gtk bug, maybe?

The docs
(http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-focus-on-map)
seem to indicate it should work as we'd like it to, though of course the 
WM is free to ignore the hint.  I'd be surprised if they did, though.

Checking xprop output for both my focus-stealing window and my 
non-focus-stealing desktop, they look pretty much the same (aside from 
the window type hint).  Odd.

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#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    GtkWidget *win;

    gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

    win = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    gtk_window_set_focus_on_map(GTK_WINDOW(win), FALSE);
    gtk_widget_set_size_request(win, 300, 300);
    gtk_widget_show(win);

    gtk_main();

    return 0;
}
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        -brian