Bug 9358

Summary:	Cannot set applications to be "always on top"
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Corey Burger <corey.burger>
Component:	App/compiz	Assignee:	David Reveman <reveman>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	pochu27
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Corey Burger 2006-12-15 23:07:33 UTC

Gnomes 'always on top' option is disabled, and in programs like xmms which have
an 'always on top' option it is ignored.

Reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/33784

Comment 1 David Reveman 2006-12-19 07:15:47 UTC

I've verified that the _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE hint that compiz supports works
properly. With "gnome always-on-top option" I assume that you mean libwnck's
action menu that is used by the panel taskbar and gtk-window-decorator. This is
an issue in libwnck and not in compiz, if I remember correctly libwnck assumes
that _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE isn't supported when _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS hint exists.

I don't know about xmms. I guess that either it uses libwnck, is doing the same
mistake as libwnck or isn't using the _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE hint but some other
hint that compiz doesn't support.

Comment 2 Corey Burger 2006-12-19 23:13:57 UTC

Ah, ok. Should I file a bug in bugzilla.g.o then?

Comment 3 David Reveman 2006-12-20 08:58:22 UTC

Yes, please do so.

Comment 4 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2007-02-08 17:11:57 UTC

Could you please post here the Gnome bug, if you've reported it?

Comment 5 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:35:08 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 6 Kristian Lyngstøl 2009-02-03 12:26:49 UTC

Should be fixed. If not, re-open on bugs.opencompositing.org

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