Re: keeping modal dialogs visible (on top)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Sharp, Peggy" <Peggy.Sharp@wang.com> writes:
> i've not been able to find a way to keep modal dialogs on top of any others
> that are visible.  it this possible, and if so, please send instructions.
> thanks!
> 

If you set the transient parent of the dialog, some window managers do
this and some do not. However all your program should do is set the
transient parent; the resulting behavior is up to the window manager. 

gtk_window_set_transient_for() is the function you want.

Havoc