xfwm4 oddness

[Brian J. Tarricone]

and of course gtk_dialog_run() automatically sets the dialog modal, 
which i totally forgot, so unsetting that beforehand does no good....

    -brian

Olivier wrote:

>Brian,
>
>The behaviour you're seeing is normal, but it was missing a frame update
>as the app is changing its state afterwards (I mean, modals can't be
>hidden, and sticky, so that the hide and stick button are useless)
>
>Should be fixed in CVS now.
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
>
>On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:44, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>  
>
>>sure:
>>http://spuriousinterrupt.orgl/xfce4/files/xfwm4-dialog-test.c
>>
>>i realised how to "fix" it.  if i use gtk_main() instead of 
>>gtk_dialog_run(), the problem goes away.  however, because of how the 
>>dialog is called in my particular application, i'm not so sure that 
>>calling gtk_main() is a great idea.
>>
>>	-brian
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Olivier wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Brian,
>>>
>>>Can you provide a simple sample code that exhibits the problem? xprops
>>>are nice, but fairly static and not necessarily very helpfull in such a
>>>case.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Olivier.
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:36, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>olivier,
>>>>
>>>>amusingly, this is somewhat work-related.  i'm creating a login dialog 
>>>>that lives in a library that can be called by whatever random GUI app 
>>>>feels like calling it (so it has a NULL parent).  i'm getting weird 
>>>>behaviour.  when the dialog is mapped and initially focused, it looks 
>>>>normal.  it has all the buttons i'd expect - menu, stick, shade, 
>>>>minimise, close (i've set resizable to FALSE, so no maximise).  as soon 
>>>>as the window loses focus, however, the sticky and minimise buttons 
>>>>disappear, and the dialog becomes sticky.  for comparison, metacity 
>>>>(2.6.2) handles the window properly.
>>>>
>>>>i've played around with dialog creation, and here's what i have 
>>>>regarding xprop and whatnot:
>>>>http://spuriousinterrupt.org/xfce4/files/dialog-weirdness-tests.txt
>>>>i don't think i'm doing anything wrong, but, being the king of b0rk, 
>>>>that's certainly a possibility.
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>brian
>>>>
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