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bug #34718: Feature: Allow gxmessage to be "sticky"

Submitted by:  Moritz Barsnick <barsnick>
Submitted on:  Tue 01 Nov 2011 01:35:24 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Timothy Musson <timothym>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sat 25 Feb 2012 10:57:17 AM UTC, comment #1:

Patch applied, thanks :^)

BTW, the reason I hadn't implemented "sticky" and "on top" before is that I thought it ought to be possible to get that behaviour via Window Manager settings plus gxmessage's -name option. But I never had much luck getting that to work except with WindowMaker, IIRC.

Timothy Musson <timothym>
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Tue 01 Nov 2011 01:35:24 PM UTC, original submission:

Please read the long story in bug #34716.

In order to be able to emphasize the importance of a message, it may be necessary to have gxmessage appear on all of the window manager's desktops. This is called being "sticky".

This depends on the window manager complying to such a request, but should work in most modern WMs. There are lists to be found which show which WMs do this.

There are tools like wmctrl which can modify a window's behavior, but it would be nice to have this as a gxmessage feature.

I am attaching a patch which works nicely for me. It does not apply cleanly on top of the patches in bug #34716 and bug #34717, but it is trivial to integrate with those.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Moritz

Moritz Barsnick <barsnick>

 

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file #24268:  gxmessage-2.12.4-sticky.01.patch added by barsnick (2KiB - application/octet-stream - patch to add "-sticky" command line option to have gxmessage on all desktops if possible)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sat 25 Feb 2012 10:57:17 AM UTCtimothymStatusNone=>Fixed
      Assigned toNone=>timothym
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Tue 01 Nov 2011 01:35:24 PM UTCbarsnickAttached File-=>Added gxmessage-2.12.4-sticky.01.patch, #24268

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