always on top windows don't remain always on top when there is a fullscreen window active

[Sam Spilsbury]

Binary package hint: compiz

See the description, fullscreen a window, mark another one always on top, the always on top one doesn't end up on top of the fullscreen one when really it should.

EDIT: We can't fix the original bug, however, this bug report was about making OnBoard stack above fullscreen windows, which we can now do.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Quick note here that fixing this one seems to violate the EWMH, but it doesn't really make any sense to me that an always-on-top window should not be always on top when a fullscreen window is present.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s07.html#STACKINGORDER

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

This should be fixed by the application itself in this case:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2011-May/msg00016.html

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:32 PM, David Barth <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: unity
>    Milestone: 3.8.16 => alpha2
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> Title:
>  always on top windows don't remain always on top when there is a
>  fullscreen window active
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
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> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: compiz
>
>  See the description, fullscreen a window, mark another one always on
>  top, the always on top one doesn't end up on top of the fullscreen one
>  when really it should.
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[steubens (steubens)]

i often have movies above firefox that is running fullscreen on windows; i would like to be able to do this with linux, i don't mind adding the properties to windows manually to use whatever facility might exist in the future to do it, but i'd like say; "always on top" from the compiz window decorator menu to have them on top of fullscreen windows, or at least an option i can change in ccsm to say that it's ok for _ABOVE to be on top of _FULLSCREEN :D