window stacking

Danny Milosavljevic danny.milo at gmx.net
Fri Feb 13 15:54:43 CET 2004


Hi,

Am Fre, den 13.02.2004 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone um 05:57:
> ok, i'm totally stumped.  if you set the xfdesktop backdrop to an 
> invalid file, it pops up a dialog saying that you're dumb.  but this 
> dialog is on the lowest stacking layer and won't come to the top.  i've 
> tried setting the dialog modal.  i've tried gtk_window_present().  i've 
> tried setting _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE and/or _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP to 
> true.  i've tried setting _WIN_LAYER to an obscenely high value.  
> nothing seems to work.  (of course, gtk_window_set_keep_above(), which 
> may do the trick, is new in gtk 2.4).  i'm going crazy.  i even copied 
> beep's 'always on top' code, and it doesn't work.  anybody have any ideas

Last time I looked the xfdesktop error dialog didn't give a parent
window to use (uses xfce_err or something, I believe). Is that related
somehow ?


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