Re: always on top window

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 8/4/06, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible in Metacity, and in other window managers, create a
> always on top window? What I want to mean with it is a window that is
> never obscured by any other window while the desktop is running, like
> the overlay window that was introduced in X11R7.1.
>
> I'm working in gnome-mag and I need a always on top window to make it
> works smoother in X11R7.0 using COMPOSITE, since override_redirect
> windows can appear on top of it. Since, I can't be a window manager and
> select SubstructureRedirectMask, because Metacity already selected it.

Selecting SubstructureRedirectMask would do no good for
override_redirect windows anyway; override redirect windows are so
named, because the Xserver overrides or ignores redirects for them
(such as the substructure redirect).

> The better I achieve was raise the mag window when a CreateNotify,
> MapNotify, ConfigureNotify and CirculateNotify event is received, but
> this is not smooth enough, since it's possible to see the window that
> appear on top of the mag win before the raise of the last.

The compositing manager might be able to do something about this, but
I know nothing about that side of things.  cc'ing Soeren.