[openbox] What tools to use while figuring out a problem with modal dialogs ?

[Dana Jansens]

Running openbox with --debug will dump a bunch of info about windows when
they appear. That may help. Also, xprop is your friend if you want to look
at what state windows are in.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo at gmail.com> wrote:

> This will be about a problem, that's an interaction between wine and
> openbox, but there are strong hints, that's wine at fault here.
>
> While it's not quite common, still with many Windows apps run with wine,
> while wine is letting the window manager manage the windows, modal
> dialogs aren't getting opened at the correct layer.
>
> That is a modal dialog, that's supposed to be opened *on top* of the
> window is opened below it and sometimes in a way that somehow prevents it
> from being risen with Alt-Tab.
>
> There's an old bug about it in wine's bugzilla (WM_TRANSIENT_FOR (#37052)
> and another one (#26693)), but it's not seeing any progress, as a comment
> or two there suggest that by ICCCM, wine is doing the wrong thing.
>
> So my questions are:
> - what tools would be most covenient to use to figure out what's wine
>   doing ?
> - what is wine supposed to be doing (those bugs probably describe the
>   problem better than I do) ?
> - does anyone see a place in wine's x11 code where this is going wrong
>   and has an idea of a fix ?
>
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