Always on top stops working after untick window decorations

[Lucas]

"Always on top" option stops working after unticking window decorations.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Lucas,

What version of Xpad are you using?

[Lucas (lucasribeiroufrj)]

Hello Arthur,

The version is 4.5.

Regards

Lucas Ribeiro

2015-11-06 18:19 GMT+01:00 Arthur Borsboom <email address hidden>:

> Hi Lucas,
>
> What version of Xpad are you using?
>
> ** Changed in: xpad
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> Always on top stops working after untick window decorations
>
> Status in Xpad:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> "Always on top" option stops working after unticking window
> decorations.
>
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[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Lucas,

I have been able to reproduce the problem with Linux Mint 17.2 Mate and Xpad 4.2.
I have been unable to reproduce the problem with Arch Linux, openbox and Xpad 4.6 (current in development).

Which Linux distribution including version number are you using and what window manager?

[Lucas (lucasribeiroufrj)]

Hello Arthur,

I am using ubuntu 15.04 and the Kernel is 3.19.0-31-generic. The windows
manager is Compiz. Everthing is default.

Lucas Ribeiro

2015-11-08 19:38 GMT+01:00 Arthur Borsboom <email address hidden>:

> Hi Lucas,
>
> I have been able to reproduce the problem with Linux Mint 17.2 Mate and
> Xpad 4.2.
> I have been unable to reproduce the problem with Arch Linux, openbox and
> Xpad 4.6 (current in development).
>
> Which Linux distribution including version number are you using and what
> window manager?
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511352
>
> Title:
> Always on top stops working after untick window decorations
>
> Status in Xpad:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> "Always on top" option stops working after unticking window
> decorations.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xpad/+bug/1511352/+subscriptions
>

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Confirmed for Ubuntu 15.10 with Xpad 4.5

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Lucas,

I have analyzed this issue again and again I have been able to reproduce it.
However, I believe it is out of the control of the application, in this case Xpad. Xpad uses this GTK call.

gtk_window_set_decorated

From here, the window manager (for example Compiz) might or might not decide to keep the "Always on top" preference when the window decorations are removed.

This deducation is based on the following stackoverflow discussion.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8362281/how-to-make-a-python-gtk-app-dock-on-top-of-other-apps

Since I do not know how to fix this, I am closing this bug report.
If you have any suggestion or code fix, I am all ears.

[Lucas (lucasribeiroufrj)]

Hello Arthur,

That is a sad news :( I won't be able to fix it neither. But thank you very much for your effort.

Kind regards
Lucas