On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:18:42PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > I'm experiencing the following problem with acrobat reader windows which > are started clicking on a "pdf" URL (http://somewhere/something.pdf) from > my firefox browser. > > I'd like to make a set of web pages for a presentation, and keep some > auxiliary material in PDF files I can "recall". I'd like to keep the > firefox window as large as possible (maybe even full screen although I > usually do not use it) > > What happens is that, when I click on the pdf URL, firefox first correctly > displays the "Opening something.pdf" transient window, then Acrobat Reader > starts, but is immediately lowered behind the firefox window, before I can > even move to give focus to it. > > This is highly inconvenient. > > I'd like to have the acrobat window on top, so that I can give focus (with > the mouse), move it so that it overlaps only partially the browser window > and toggle front/back (with mouse focus, or eventually menu buttons) > > > This is an extract of my .fvwm2rc of what I think are relevant parts > > ... some general styles > > Style "*" SmartPlacement > Style "*" NoPPosition > Style "*" HilightBack Red > Style "*" SloppyFocus > Style "*" DecorateTransient > Style * ManualPlacementIgnoresStartsOnPage, > ActivePlacementIgnoresStartsOnPage > > ... things related to the browsers > > Style Gecko StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition > Style Netscape StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition > Style mozilla-bin StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition > > ... things related to acrobat (part of standard config file distributed > with SuSE 9.2, I did not write this). I've no idea what the bug number > refers to. > > # see bug #36189 > Style "AcroRead" SmartPlacement, RandomPlacement > > > I tried adding StaysOnBottom to the browsers, but that is not what I want, > since I cannot raise the browser window any more. > > I tried replacing all in Style AcroRead with StartsRaised but does not > look to work (it does the first time, then if window is lowered, acrobat > remembers ... could it be ?) > > I tried adding StaysOnTop to Style AcroRead ... which again is not what I > want. I could force acroread into another page, but I'd prefer to have it > on front in the same page.
Does this help: Style * !RaiseTransient, !LowerTransient, !StackTransientParent ? Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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