Re: [Denemo-devel] Is there a way to have all pop-up windows be on top

[Jeremiah Benham]

Yes! That worked. Now the palettes behave as I would expect them to. Should I push this patch to master and the stable branch?

Jeremiah

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 11:32 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Richard Shann
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>         On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 21:24 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
>         > > I also noticed that the pallets will "disappear" behind
>         denemo if
>         > > denemo's main editing screen is clicked on. Shouldn't the
>         pallet
>         > > remain above but have the denemo main edit window have
>         focus?
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>         Yes, I think it should, and indeed I see I have put
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>         gtk_window_set_keep_above  (GTK_WINDOW (pal->window), TRUE);
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> I created a patch that calls this function one line before this:
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-transient-for
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> I will see if it helps.

that looks good...

Richard

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> Jeremiah
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>         in src/ui/palettes.c
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>         but, as the Gtk documentation says, window managers can ignore
>         these
>         requests, which is what Apple is doing I guess. Looking at
>         this, I see a
>         bug - if you change to Undock a palette it doesn't acquire the
>         keep_above property until you re-start Denemo. I guess I need
>         another
>         call to that function on undocking ...
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>         Richard
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