Re: Updated: XFree86-[base,xserv]

["Earle F. Philhower, III" <earle at ziplabel dot com>]

Howdy Harold,

Harold wrote ...
> While you are at it, would you mind looking at what happens in emacs
> when you have set the "Always On Top" flag for a window?  The menus in
> that case briefly popup, then get stuck behind the main emacs window.
> If you hold the mouse button down and drags it around between a few
> menus you can eventually get them to stick on top... sounds like all
> child windows of an "Always On Top" window should also have that flag
> set.  I don't know if that is easy or hard to solve though.

According to the Windoze docs any subchildren of a window on the top
of the Z order inherit the always-on-top setting automatically.

Unfortunately it looks like when Emacs makes a menu, it creates a
window whose parent isn't the editor window.  It probably makes a
transient over the root display, so as far as X and Win32 knows it's
just another undecorated window.  I'll throw in some local debugging
and take a gander and see if this is really the case.

It *may* make sense to place transients at the top of the Z stack
always, but I'd rather not do that without a whole lot of thought...
-- 
-Earle F. Philhower, III
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