[openbox] window on the top

Nicolás Reynolds nicolas.reynolds at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 13:07:27 EDT 2008


2008/4/2, Ctrl Alt Back <ctrlaltback at whitelabel.name>:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:58:58AM -0400, Dana Jansens wrote:
>  >
>  > I'm assuming you used xprop to see what it's WM_CLASS hint is set to?
>  > Usually class names start with a capital letter..
>
> It kind of works with capital Pd, thanks for the tip.
>  Sorry i don't know xprop, and i did not explain myself properly :
>  Pd has something like a console, where modal always comes on the top.
>
>  1) if you make console staying always on the top, it is in your way,
>    but you can see modal when it pops up.
>
>  2) if you dont make it on the top, it is better, you can just let it
>    live somewhere and save desktop space, but then modals are hidden
>    somewhere under lots of other pd windows, and you end up hitting
>    Alt+Tab many times.

maybe modals have their own role? just guessing right now :)

# xprop WM_WINDOW_ROLE


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