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Re: always-on-top bug
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jack Tanner wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > The splashscreen of an app being displayed over ssh X11 forwarding stays
> > > on top of other windows instead of going to background when I select a
> > > Windows window. Normally, I would've never noticed this since
> > > splashscreens usually whiz by, but I was on a slow connection, and this
> > > was very noticeable.
> >
> > Was this in multiwindow mode, or in rootless/rooted mode? If the former,
> > then AFAIU this is expected behavior -- the windows are managed by the
>
> Yes, this was in multiwindow mode. But multiwindow mode doesn't use the
> internal Windows window manager, does it? I had thought it used an
> emulation of it that tried to be as similar as possible.
As Alexander said, multiwindow mode is a thin layer on top of the internal
Windows window manager. All of the X hints and attributes (like
"always-on-top") are translated to the corresponding Windows hints and
attributes by the multiwindow layer.
> A native Windows OpenOffice.org starts with a splashscreen that I can
> send to the background by clicking on a different window. An
> X11-forwarded OOo starts with a splashscreen that stays on top no matter
> what. Does this mean that the Windows OOo doesn't draw its splashscreen
> with an always-on-top instruction?
Possibly. You'd need to look at the source to find that out. They do use
different windowing libraries, so I wouldn't be surprised if the code that
deals with splash screens is radically different...
Igor
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