[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-toolkit] Tell GTK that Palettes are pop-ups

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/11/2011 07:01 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> The Palettes are genuine client-managed pop-up windows. If we don't tell GTK
> about that, it won't set the override-redirect flag so the window manager
> will try to manage the window (placement, decorations, etc.) which naturally
> interferes with our management of the window (pop-up / -down).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe<silbe at activitycentral.com>
> ---
>
> For some reason, this isn't a problem with metacity (maybe some kind of
> compatibility heuristics?), just notion (the only other window manager I
> tried). There's no observable change of behaviour with metacity, so it should
> qualify as a bug fix.

Hi Sascha,

what did you use the notion window manager for? I try to not add code if 
there is not a real use case.

Regards,
    Simon