On Tuesday 21 March 2006 09:42, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Hi! > > I just wanted to check if the behaviour I'm seeing is a bug in metacity > or me misinterpreting the spec. > > What I'm trying to do is create an application modal window (i.e. modal > for all windows in a group). The spec says: > > "_NET_WM_STATE_MODAL indicates that this is a modal dialog box. If the > WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint is set to another toplevel window, the dialog is > modal for that window; if WM_TRANSIENT_FOR is not set or set to the root > window the dialog is modal for its window group." > > However, metacity only behaves correctly when WM_TRANSIENT_FOR is set to > the root window, which (judging from the archives) is the old way of > doing things. Since this is a new implementation I'd prefer to do it the > "new" way (i.e. don't set WM_TRANSIENT_FOR at all). > > I found some modality bugs in GNOME's bugzilla, but nothing that seemed > to cover this problem.
I've noticed the same thing. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126489 for detailed information. Basically, metacity doesn't support group transients at all it seems. > Rgds > Pierre > _______________________________________________ > wm-spec-list mailing list > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Sandakervn. 116, P.O. Box 4332 Nydalen, 0402 Oslo, Norway _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
