On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:23:52PM -0800, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anyone noticed that "Preferences" window of mozilla can
> get lowered to the point where it is obscured by the parent
> if you were to switch focus to the parent mozilla window?
That is because the preferences window is a transient of the root
window, not of the browser window. So fvwm can not know which
window spawned it. I assume that was an intentinal decision by
the mozilla crew.
> Same goes for phoenix...
>
> The rest of my transient windows (including 'find', etc in
> mozilla) behave how I would expect them to: lose focus but
> stay on top when I focus on the parent window.
>
> Same seems to happen to "profile" windows of mozilla.
> RaiseTransient, LowerTransient also dont seem to affect the
> said windows (i.e. if I obstruct parts of mozilla, 'find',
> and "preferences" with an xterm and xterm is in the front,
> and then focus mozilla, both mozilla and 'find' will come
> to the front, but not the 'preferences')
>
> Both identd and 'xwininfo -all' produce output for 'find'
> and 'preferences' transients, which differs only in
> size/position. Both window types are said to be transient by
> identd.
>
> It is possible that I am making a mistake somewhere, but the
> fact that the rest of transient windows works as I would
> expect them to throws me off.
>
> Here are my transient settings:
>
> Style "*" RaiseTransient, LowerTransient, DecorateTransient,
> Style "*" StackTransientParent
>
> In case it matters, I am using
>
> fvwm 2.5.4 (from cvs) compiled on Oct 20 2002 at 00:42:44
> with support for: ReadLine, XPM, PNG, GNOME WM hints, EWMH
> hints, Shape, SM, Xinerama, XFT
>
> Please let me know if you dont see the problem, so that I
> can go back and take a second look at my settings...
There is nothing wrong with your settings. The change has to be
made in the application. All you can do is to ask the application
developers to change that.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Oct 31 2002 - 02:20:07 GMT