Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Owen Rees
--On 19 May 2005 17:35 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote: What programs are these? Is the problem reproducable with common windowing toolkits like KDE, GTK, Xt or Motif? Otherwise it will be hard to determine how to fix this. emacs (cygwin version running locally) has balloon help on the toolbar -

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Sven Hammarling
Nappi Chris-ra5809 wrote: Hello all, I have noticed that pop-up help balloons exhibit one or two problems (depending on the program) when using the built-in rootless WM: Some balloons to not go to the background when a Windows window is brought to the front. Other balloons actually come to the

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Owen Rees
--On 20 May 2005 09:43 +0100 Owen Rees wrote: The popups appear with two Windows windows on top of the emacs window, but if a cygwin/X window is interposed (e.g. xterm) the emacs popups do not appear in the covered region. I have just noticed that the popups appear even if the X window is

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Owen Rees wrote: --On 20 May 2005 09:43 +0100 Owen Rees wrote: The popups appear with two Windows windows on top of the emacs window, but if a cygwin/X window is interposed (e.g. xterm) the emacs popups do not appear in the covered region. I have just noticed that

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Owen Rees
--On 20 May 2005 11:51 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote: Anyway, tooltips which appear on top of any other window are not a bug in my opinion. They appear topmost in windowed mode too. The issue as far as I am concerned is not that the tooltip display is on top but that it occurs when the button

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Owen Rees wrote: --On 20 May 2005 11:51 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote: Anyway, tooltips which appear on top of any other window are not a bug in my opinion. They appear topmost in windowed mode too. The issue as far as I am concerned is not that the tooltip display

RE: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Phil Betts
On Friday, May 20, 2005 10:51 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Anyway, tooltips which appear on top of any other window are not a bug in my opinion. They appear topmost in windowed mode too. The problem is not that the popups appear on top. It is that the mouse position reports are passed to the

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-20 Thread Owen Rees
--On 20 May 2005 14:38 +0200 Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'm not sure how a minimized window or a partly obscured window can notice mouse movement in that area. That's the main problem. That made me realise that the obvious tool to investigate this is xev. MotionNotify events come through from the

Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-19 Thread Nappi Chris-ra5809
Hello all, I have noticed that pop-up help balloons exhibit one or two problems (depending on the program) when using the built-in rootless WM: Some balloons to not go to the background when a Windows window is brought to the front. Other balloons actually come to the front when the mouse is

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Nappi Chris-ra5809 wrote: Hello all, I have noticed that pop-up help balloons exhibit one or two problems (depending on the program) when using the built-in rootless WM: Some balloons to not go to the background when a Windows window is brought to the front.

RE: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-19 Thread Nappi Chris-ra5809
Hello all, I have noticed that pop-up help balloons exhibit one or two problems (depending on the program) when using the built-in rootless WM: Some balloons to not go to the background when a Windows window is brought to the front. Other balloons actually come to the front when the

RE: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

2005-05-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Nappi Chris-ra5809 wrote: Luckily I found that the balloon.pl demo for Tk located in: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/Tk/demos/widtrib exhibits the problem. That's good. So we can try to find a solution bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org