Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:23:13 -0500 From: Tom LaStrange <lastrange_tom@jpmorgan.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@boulder.openware.com> Cc: David Ngai <ngaid@pcsdnfs1.eq.gs.com>, oi-users@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Bringing a window to the top. Message-ID: <9503161323.AA12419@landau.ny.jpmorgan.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:32:16 MST." <199503152332.QAA04570@marvin.boulder.openware.com>
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> : Does anybody know a way to make an obscurred window
> : rise to the top?
> :
> : or to "always" stay on top?
>
> Well, in general, you don't want to do this because you are fighting
> with the window manager.
>
> However, if you want to pick that fight, here's how :-) Basically,
> you put a visibility notify on the outside X window, and when it
> becomes obscured, you raise that window. This is from a program I
> wrote where 'top' is an override redirect window (think toolbar menu),
> but it should work with non-override redirect windows as well.
Hope you never get two of these windows up where one obscures the other...
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Tom LaStrange toml@mercury.com
toml@jpmorgan.com (on assignment at)
Mercury Technologies, Inc.
53 Wall St. NYC, NY 10005
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