[pygtk] dialog in a fullscreen app

[Elijah Newren]

On 4/10/07, Mikael Lindqvist <li.mikael.spam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm creating a fullscreen application using pygtk. In the application
> I have a dialog that I want to pop up in front of the fullscreen
> window. The problem is that when I do this my gnome panels appear as
> well as long as the dialog has focus, and this is not what I want.
> (Don't know if "gnome panels" is the right terminology, I'm talking
> about the panels on top with the Applications, Places, System menus
> and at the bottom with list of open windows). How can tell gtk to not
> show those panels when the dialog has focus?

gtk is not responsible for the stacking of the windows of other
processes.  The window manager is, so it depends on the window manager
you are using.

> There must be a way, because with Epiphany in fullscreen this doesn't
> happen when popping up dialogs (Ctrl+S for Save for example).

I'm guessing Epiphany set the transient_for hint on their dialogs and
that you didn't?