On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jeff Raven wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:52:56PM -0700, James Ramsey wrote:
> > 1) Window stacking buglet:
> >
> > I have xpdf set to be the helper application in
> > Netscape for viewing PDF files. When I click on a link
> > pointing to a PDF, the main xpdf window comes up, plus
> > a little "splash" window saying "xpdf version 0.90 . .
> > ." with an "OK" button.
> >
> > In Blackbox, when the "splash" window comes up, the
> > main xpdf window jumps *behind* the Netscape window.
> > This does not happen in E or Window Maker.
> >
>
> This happens because the 'splash' window is actually
> netscape's window, not xpdf's, so when it gets the focus
> netscape is raised with it. [xpdf writes out the text to
> stdout/err, and netscape feels obligated for some reason
> to pop up a dialog showing it.]
If this is the reason you can suppress the problem by changing the xpdf
line to look like this: "xpdf %s >&/dev/null". This redirects both stdout
and stderr so Netscape doesn't open the dialog.
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