[Glade-users] Signal question.

[balakkvj at dcs.shef.ac.uk (BalaKrishna Kolluru)]

2008/10/14 Alexey Kurochkin <alexey.kurochkin at pathfinderlwd.com>

> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:55 -0400, PEYMAN ASKARI wrote:
> > Well all I'm doing is calling a widget.hide() then a widget.show(),
> > but to be honest with you, I don't know what gladex uses when it calls
> > the widget (I run my glade xml files on python with gladex).
> >
> > I just want to clarify that I can use the main window, and I can
> > interact with it, it's just that the other window will always sit on
> > top of the main window, and I have to physically drag it to the side.
>
> Then unfortunately you can't do much about it as it is very likely
> window manager dependent. You can cross your fingers and fiddle with
> "Type hint" property or some other magic, smoke and mirrors, but your wm
> may or may not honor it, since it is what it is called - only a hint.
> And even if you seduce your wm, on some other system your program may
> behave differently. I'm not aware of any trivial way to fight this
> problem. Sorry. But why just do not close the dialog if it gets in the
> way?
>
> _______________________________________________
Is this WM behaviour Glade-3 specific? I have used Glade 2 and switching the
Visibility to "no" clearly stops the behaviour in question.
I did not realize that "Type hint" is such an important attribute.

B
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BalaKrishna Kolluru
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