Yep, official _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW support would be really useful for desklets/sticky windows (e.g. cairo-clock).
Regards, Guillaume Seguin 2006/10/11, David Reveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:50 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 10/10/06, David Reveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a bug in libwnck. For some reason it always assumes that > > the window manager doesn't support the above window state when > > _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS is set. > > Actually, it's more of a bug in the EWMH than in libwnck. The EWMH > doesn't have a _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, despite having so many other > _NET_WM_ACTION_* abilities, so there's no way to advertise support for > it. The only reason that the "on top" ability shows in the > right-click window for tasklist items when metacity is the window > manager, is because of a bug in metacity that causes > _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS to not be set on any "normal" windows. > Combined with the fact that libwnck just takes a random guess at the > provided abilities when this property is not set and you find that we > have a cancellation of bugs that falsely gives the impression that > things are working correctly for metacity+libwnck. > > We should push _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE on wm-spec-list and then get > libwnck and compiz to support it (and metacity, but that's not > relevant on this list; besides, metacity needs a lot more work than > just this with the allowed actions stuff). Yes, we should probably add _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW too. -David _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
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