xfwm4 oddness

Olivier fourdan at xfce.org
Wed Jun 30 18:06:29 CEST 2004


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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