Re: WM features
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec |
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| Organization | You expect me to be organized? |
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:26:13 +0100 Lubos Lunak <[email protected]> babbled: > On Monday 21 of January 2008, kettani lalla fatima zahra wrote: > > Hi all, > > i have a question about window manager's features. Is there any WM that can > > force an application specific window to behave as a system modal window? > > *I know for example that mwm offers XmNmwmInputMode* resource that can be > > used by an application to set a system modal window, but i am interested by > > a customisation that could be done through WM without being invoked by the > > application it self. > > If by system modal you mean a window that will block all remaining windows, > then that is generally, with very few exceptions, considered to be evil and I > doubt you'll get support for something like that. Especially given that the > few expections work like described in another answer, with override redirect > and grab. agreed. irrespective of whatever a spec might say in mwm or netwm - i know i would never support such a feature in enlightenment. it simply removes control from a user. dialogs that hold your whole screen hostage are just evil. if you must do it - then it will be your extra level of work to grab keyboard, mouse, and so on - hopefully giving you a dis-incentive to try do this as it raises the barrier of entry for the app programmer. > > And for screensavers, is there a WM that can allow a program to pop up over > > a screen saver? > > No. It is up to the screensaver what it allows, or rather not allows, to be > visible. > > -- > Lubos Lunak > KDE developer > -------------------------------------------------------------- > SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] , [email protected] > Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 > 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 > Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz > _______________________________________________ > wm-spec-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected]