Re: questions on the gworkspace desktop

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-01-19 03:41:51 +0200 Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:

> Andreas Schik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2005-01-17 16:23:59 +0100 Enrico Sersale <enrico@dtedu.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I've merged back Desktop.app into GWorkspace so the desktop window can now 
> > > by shown/hidden from the Tools menu.
> > > You can also choose from the preferences window if the Dock must be 
> > > visible or not.
> > > Moreover, now it is possible to have the Desktop and the Dock 
> > > "omnipresent".
> >
> > This looks much better now :-) Many thanks. There are two things, though:
> > 1. In file GWorkspace/Desktop/Dock/Dock.m you refer to the header 
> > Desktop.h, which is now GWDesktop.h.
> > 2. The 'omnipresent' flag for Desktop does not work here. Might be that it 
> > has to do with either the fact that I switched off the Dock or with 
> > WindowMaker 0.91.
>
> WindowMaker 0.91 (and, to a lesser extent, 0.90) are completely NET_WM 
> compliant window managers. This is I implore Enrico to test this stuff, 
> since, doubtlessly some behaviors have changed.

Done.
The interesting thing is that it seems that with 0.91 no trick is needed to 
make a window omnipresent. This because -back does it for us; XGServerWindow 
already sets the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP atom for a window at 
NSDesktopWindowLevel.
The only thing to notice is that it seems that you must add to your NSWindow 
something as:

- (void)orderWindow:(NSWindowOrderingMode)place
         relativeTo:(int)otherWin
{
  [super orderWindow: place relativeTo: otherWin];
  [self setLevel: NSDesktopWindowLevel];
}

-setLevel: used in other places doesn't seem to work.
So, I've leaved my XDesktopWindow.bundle in place to be used with WindowMaker < 
0.91 (or other window managers, I suppose) but it does nothing if you are using 
0.91.