On 11/22/06, Lubos Lunak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 20:23, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote: > > On 11/21/06, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote: > > > > Not exactly. I want to show window which is similar to window with > > > > _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH window type (asit is treated by metacity) > > > > but not "always on top". And this window should behaves the same ways > > > > under other WMs. > > > > > > This is just wrong. All splash screens should work the same way; there's > > > no reason yours is special. So just tell the WM that it's a splash > > > screen and don't do anything else. > > > > Agree, but I do not want splash screen (in term of WM), but something > > similar to it. > > So what exactly do you want, then? "as it is treated by metacity" doesn't > mean much, Metacity is not an etalon of the WM spec. > > > Agree. but my real purpose is to figure out what kind of control over the > > allowed actions I have according to the spec. > > None, it's all window manager's [*]. You can give hints, but if the window > manager decides a window will be squished and with pink elephants painted all > around it then it has every right to do so and you have (or don't have) to > live with that. Both ICCCM and EWMH guarantee very little to clients, for > various reasons. If they didn't our desktops would probably still look a lot > like Windows95 or TWM or whatever was the X GUI back then, although that > would at the same time have spared us quite some headaches, I admit.
Well, I do understand that I can not force WM to do something, but I can provide some hints to WM (and it's ok for me). But how to, according to the spec, (ask to) disable minimization, maximization, closing of the window? Thanks, Oleg. > > [*] http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4 > > -- > 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 > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list > _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
