Hi
I am using Redhat linux 9 and gnome. I am wondering if there is any way
to make a particular window always stay on top. How can I do this? Can
some please explain the procedure for me?

thanks in advance
raju

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:24:10 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

Depends on your window manager. If you have sawfish, start
sawfish-ui and go to the tab Matched Windows,
with icewm-1.2.13, you can use the .icewm/winoptions file.

If your window manager can't do these things, you can use an external
tool like devilspie (XML configuration, troublesome) or wmctrl, eg

wmctrl -r XMMS -b toggle,above

http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/

Achim

Now I installed wmctrl-1.03; I would like to know how to specify the
<WIN> option. For example

$ wmctrl -l

0x02400076 0 k62.mae.cornell.edu optionalArgs.f90 (~/fortran) - GVIM3
0x02600076 0 k62.mae.cornell.edu optionalArgs2.f90 (~/fortran) - GVIM4
0x02a0000e 1 k62.mae.cornell.edu raju@k62:~
0x02c0000e 1 k62.mae.cornell.edu raju@k62:~
0x02e00019 1 k62.mae.cornell.edu XMMS

Now if I do

$ wmctrl -r XMMS -b toggle,above
Segmentation fault

$ wmctrl -r XMMS
Segmentation fault


Can u tell please me how to get this working. The compilation did not
give any hiccups.

If it is of any help

$ wmctrl -m
Name: Metacity
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A

Thanks in advance
raju

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:53:22 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

Weird. Try the -v option and

strace wmctrl -r XMMS -b toggle,above

to get more information.

If it is a bug in wmctrl's window matching code, you can try to use
the optons -u or -F or use a window id instead of the name, eg

wmctrl -i -r `wmctrl -l | sed -n '/XMMS/s/ .*//p'` -b toggle,above

If you can't get wmctrl to work:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/gob2/
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/devilspie/

<flurb>
<matchers>
<matcher name="DevilsPieMatcherWindowName">
<property name="window_title" value="foobar"/>
</matcher>
</matchers>
<actions>
<action name="DevilsPieActionLayer">
<property name="above" value="TRUE"/>
</action>
</actions>
</flurb>


BTW Gnome 2.4 comes with metacity 2.6.1, which has a keybinding for
toggle_above, but no layer submenu (like in sawfish, icewm or openbox3)
in the window menu.

Achim