Incorrect z-order of help & settings windows
Bug #820667 reported by
Jon Jennings
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScreenRuler |
Incomplete
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Running 0.9.3 in Ubuntu 11.04, if I turn off "On Top" then the Settings and Help windows should be able to move in front of the ruler itself. But they don't - they always move behind the ruler. In the Ubuntu shipped version (0.891) they work correctly.
Oddly the 0.9.3 About window works correctly (but always had higher priority back in 0.891)
[Great little app by the way... v v useful]
| Changed in screenruler: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Ian McIntosh (ian-mcintosh) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in screenruler: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| importance: | Medium → Low |
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We recently changed the window types / hints so that window managers treat the ruler correctly, not maximizing it awkwardly. I believe this z-order problem was a side effect of that.
I don't have time to experiment with this, though if someone can figure out a combination of types/hints for the three windows that fixes this problem for both On Top and not On Top, and for all common GNOME environments then I would be most grateful and your name would go in the author credits.
Specifically, it must behave well in:
- metacity 2d
- compiz
- unity
- gnome 3
Perhaps the quickest path to a solution would be to find someone with intimate knowledge of GTK and these environments.