Erik Blankinship wrote: > Let me explain what I am trying to achieve: I am creating a "picture in > a picture effect" (using XV in a window, amongst other windows). GTK > doesn't play well with overlapping widgets, and gtk.Fixed() doesn't > guarantee Z-order. So I am using a stack of gtk.Windows without > decoration to achieve the desired effect, but the appearance is that > everything looks like a nice gtk layout.
Sorry, got confused by your description; I thought you were trying to change stacking on the fly by swapping transient-fors around. But anyway, you still have the problem that "transient for" doesn't actually mean anything having to do with stacking. (In fact, the ICCCM lists a bunch of things a window manager might do differently with transient windows, but stacking order isn't one of them.) So (1) setting transient-for on a window won't necessarily affect its stacking, and (2) it may affect it in ways other than stacking. (Eg, matchbox appears to assume that any window that has WM_TRANSIENT_FOR set is a dialog box.) So your best bet is probably to make your own version of gtk.Fixed that does have a guaranteed Z-order, rather than trying to bend the wm to your will. Marco says "I seem to remember blizzard wrote something like that for mozilla gtk2". You *might* also be able to get gtk.Fixed to work just by calling raise()/lower() on the child widgets' GdkWindows to stack them the way you want within the Fixed. (Or just by being sure to show() them in bottom-to-top order.) -- Dan _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
