On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:40:44 -0400 Adam Jackson <[email protected]> said:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:49 -0600, Burton Samograd wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a way to create a full screen window that is 'always on > > top' no matter what is currently running. I am currently using a > > standard window with OverrideRedirect set that raises itself every few > > seconds, which works in pretty much all cases that I need it to except > > when the user has a screensaver running that locks the station. > > > > In this case it ends up fighting with the screensaver and password entry > > dialogue. This is not acceptable for what I am doing. > > > > So the question is: is there a way to create a window that is always > > topmost in the stacking order that can never be overridden? > > Short of either being the window manager, or having a convention with > your window manager to achieve that, no. there is an evil trick you can play... that will - for the most part, technically work (if your drivers don't "suck") these days. but i feel obliged not to share that trick as every wm/compositor author on the planet will kill me (hell i'd kill myself) for suggesting it. in the end what you want requires either the wm+cm implements it - or it supports it specifically. it's all about mechanism not policy in x11 and in x11 the wm+cm (wm in older days alone) define such policies. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
