Re: [e-users] e17 - modal windows do not appear in windows list

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:32:44 +1200 jochen schroeder
<joc...@gm...> babbled:

> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:15 +0200, Luca Martini wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I noticed that many (if not all) modal windows do not appear in the
> > windows list. This is quite annoying for users (like me) that use
> > pointer focus. In fact, if the pointer moves to another (and bigger)
> > window, the only possibility to get back to the modal one is to iconify
> > many other windows.
> > Is this behavior controlled by the applications or can be controlled by
> > the wm?
> > Is it possible to tell E not to skip those windows from the
> > taskbar/windows list?
> > Thanks in advance for your attention (and of course for the great work
> > you are doing).
> > 	Luca
> 
> I reported that a while back but never got a reply from anyone. I agree
> it is very annoying. Especially because sometimes you miss the window
> appearing and the program seems to hang because it's waiting for input
> on the modal window. I also think this behaviour is wrong according to
> the netwm spec. Thanks for reminding me to follow up on this. I think
> I'll file a bug report.

if the window has requested to skip-taskbar - or the user has set this, then e
doesn't list it. as the alt-tab list (winlist) acts the same as a taskbar, e
does what the app asked it to. this is correct behavior according to the netwm
spec.

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