[openbox] always on top window stays on top of the dock?

[Dana Jansens]

On 12/04/10 03:15 PM, openbox at cstuck.ath.cx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently answered to one of my threads but forgot to send it to the whole mailing list.
> It may cover your concern so I just paste it in here: (Thread: openbox vs. fluxbox)
> 
> [...]
> Layers
> 
> Fluxbox has more Layers then openbox. I do not remember exactly their names, but basically there is a "normal" one, a "higher" and "lower" and
> +additinally to that something like "top" and "bottom"
> Which is nice when you want a window to be placed over "everything" at all times, but also want some to be above others without putting them to the
> +background...
> Hm, might sound a little confusing right now, but it's very useful to me.
> 
> I had a brief look at layer.c in openbox/actions/ and it seemed to me that the functions sending windows to the layers just set an option to 0/1/-1
> I don't know if one could just add 2/-2 to that or even let this the user configure similar to desktops? So far I could find a section in
> +openbox/client.c in
> static ObAppSettings *client_get_settings_state(ObClient *self)
> that just sets self->below and self-above as boolean.
> This does not sound like a very flexible solution but to just add two layers as top and bottom should be not too much effort I guess.
> 
> Well, maybe someone has an idea with that...

It comes, like so many limitations, from here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2507241

You could add more states, like _OB_STATE_ABOVE_ABOVE, to make a second
above layer.  It'd be nicer if a window's above/below "state" was some
kind of integer, with 0 being a default.   But I'm not sure how that
would possibly be intuitive in the Openbox GUI, so maybe it would just
be ignored there.


> Christian
> ---
> 
> 
> Directly to your issue. I use the window manager docks and in Openbox Configuration Manager I set Stacking to "Keep dock above other windows" - don't know what entry that would be in the config-file.
> 
> So I guess it's the same setting as yours.
> I can confirm that the dock will hide behind other windows that are set as always on top.
> It would be great to solve that in combination ;)
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 06:51:34PM +0100, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have my dock set to be above all windows. However, when I toggle
>> always on top for another windows, I can drag this on top of the dock.
>>
>> Is this behaviour expected?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pedro
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