[openbox] layering issue with openbox+ROX

Lucas Hazel lucas at die.net.au
Fri May 26 02:39:34 EDT 2006


On Fri, 26 May 2006 14:53:47 +1000
Lucas Hazel <lucas at die.net.au> wrote:

> 
> I am encountering a bug when using openbox in conjuntion with ROX.
> 
> For those that are not familiar with ROX, the panel's default behaviour is to be placed on the lower layer unless you hover the mouse near the border of the screen upon which it will be raised.
> 
> I also should note that the bug only occurs if both the pinboard and a panel are being used.
> 
> Now for the bug. Unless the panel has been raised any filer window that is opened will be automatically placed on the bottom layer aswell as filer windows opened from the pinboard. Another most likely related bug is that dialog windows created will raise and drop layers when their focus is changed (this is quite annoying with sloppy focus).
> 
> I tried some alternative window managers (OrorboROX, blackbox, metacity) and the behaviour does not occur.
> 
> >From first appearances it would appear that for some reason filer windows and dialogs are inheriting the properties (or atleast some of them) from the main application.
> 
> I am still unable to determine if this is a openbox bug or some evil incomatability , but I shall investigate further. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions....
> 
> I'm moving into a new house over the weekend, so won't have the time to do any code diving, but look forward to seeing a thread full of discussion when I return to the ether :)
> 

There is a ROX option to disable window manager control of the pinboard and panels, this appears to fix the problem. However this option is aimed at window managers that are not fully EWMH compliant, which is worrying as openbox is supposed to be compliant.

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Lucas Hazel



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