dana@thumper.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) (09/19/89)
Help! I may be suffering from brain rot, but for the life of me I can't figure out what combination of override_redirect, transient_for, and wmhints.input = True is needed to allow me to type in a popup window. I'm trying to run the program under olwm, which says it is pathologically ICCCM compliant. What I need is the words to tell the window manager to give a popup widget (at the moment I'm using a transientShellClass, but I've also tried overrideRedirectShellClass and wmShellClass) the input focus when I enter that popup. If anyone knows of code that does this (working under an ICCCM compliant window manager), PLEASE point me to it. Thanks a bunch! Dana Chee Bellcore MRE 2Q-250 (201) 829-4488 dana@bellcore.com
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/19/89)
> I may be suffering from brain rot, but for the life of me I can't > figure out what combination of override_redirect, transient_for, and > wmhints.input = True is needed to allow me to type in a popup window. override_redirect = False, wmhints.input = True should be sufficient. The semantics of transient_for (WM_TRANSIENT_FOR) are wm-specific and it's possible that a wm could disallow input to windows with this property (though I think that would be a big mistake). > What I need is the words to tell the window manager to give a popup > widget (at the moment I'm using a transientShellClass, but I've also > tried overrideRedirectShellClass and wmShellClass) the input focus > when I enter that popup. I assume you mean overrideShellClass; if not, you're not using the standard Xt. WMShellClass is not intended to be instantiated by applications; you should use TopLevelShellClass instead, if TransientShellClass is not appropriate. You might try modifying the transient (Boolean) resource with either a TransientShell or a TopLevelShell and see if that makes your wm any happier. We certainly have such things working here...