Pajama Sam's unmanaged window

Ori Pessach ori_pessach_blah at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 27 16:25:44 CST 2002


On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:04, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ori Pessach wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:22, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Ori Pessach wrote:
> > > > FALSE for those windows. Are there any other types of windows that
> > > > shouldn't be managed?
> > >
> > > Yes, Alexandre mentions popup menus and tooltips. Perhaps a chart could
> > > be made, so that it is possible to work out what conditions should be
> > > used to decide whether to make a window managed...
> >
> > Yep... Managed tooltips look silly. In any case, unmanaged windows behave
> > badly, and I don't see any reason to use unmanaged windows when Wine is
> > running in managed mode.
> >
> > Does anybody know how X toolkits display tooltips, popup menus, etc.?
>
> I looked at the GTK+ sources before creating that patch... for popup
> windows like menus and tooltips and stuff, GTK+ sets the override-redirect
> window attribute, which causes the window to become unmanaged. Effectively
> the same as Wine does.

OK... I'll take a look at this.

-Ori Pessach



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