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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 00:13:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2ye01d8a51004301513ufbf652cfo76c9fd04c7ee839f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDD3376B-C463-46CB-8500-00458311C679@swipnet.se>

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
>
>
> 30 apr 2010 kl. 22.54 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>:
>
>>
>> I see, thanks.  I don't know if there's a word for such things under X11
>> (I guess we should ask the freedesktop guys).
>
> You can tell the window manager that you would like to be topmost, but the
> window manager is free to ignore your request. You cant know for sure what
> will happen.


Thanks Jan. But how are tooltip frames handled on X by Emacs then?

On w32 you can say that a window (on a level corresponding to Emacs
frame) should be topmost. This is ortogonal to activating the app. And
the topmost property is per window, not per app.

Is this the same (sub)structure as on X?




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-30 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30  1:48 Add function to make frame topmost? Lennart Borgman
2010-04-30 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-30 13:26   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-30 20:54     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-30 22:02       ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-30 22:13         ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-01  8:00           ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-30 22:32       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-30 23:22         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01  1:48           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01  2:06             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01 13:05               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-01 18:03                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 20:20                   ` Drew Adams
2010-05-01 22:02                     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 22:09                       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 14:07                       ` Drew Adams
2010-05-02 15:27                         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 15:58                           ` stack-order (z-order) parameter for frames [was: Add function to make frame topmost?] Drew Adams
2010-05-01 22:44                   ` Add function to make frame topmost? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-02  1:18                     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02  7:47                       ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 12:52                         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02  7:27                     ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 12:27                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 12:53                         ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 13:44                           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03  3:16                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 14:43                         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 14:48                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-02 14:55                             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 16:48                           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 18:58                           ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 21:32                             ` Desktop bubble notifications [Was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?] David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03  0:19                               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03  2:29                                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03 19:46                                   ` Stephen Eilert
2010-05-03 19:58                                     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-04 11:48                               ` Desktop bubble notifications Bastien
2010-05-02 19:17                         ` Add function to make frame topmost? chad
2010-05-03  3:33                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 14:01                       ` Drew Adams
2010-05-02 15:06                         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03  3:43                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-03  9:59                             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 17:21                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-03 19:50                                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 21:31                               ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02  0:36                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-02  1:17                     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01  2:10           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01  2:32             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01  3:49               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 16:39             ` Tom Tromey
2010-05-03 19:33               ` systray support [was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?] Dan Nicolaescu
2010-05-01  3:19           ` Add function to make frame topmost? David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01  8:28           ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-01 19:46             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 22:46               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01  5:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-03 12:47 ` Lennart Borgman

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