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FS#7066 - Beryl + GNOME - "On top" options on windows is greyed out and not usable.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dawid R (matchil) - Friday, 04 May 2007, 20:06 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 13 December 2007, 01:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Probably after moving GNOME to /usr while using Beryl and Emerald as Window Manager in GNOME one can not set "On top" on any window, the option is just greyed out.

Everything is ok while using GNOME with Metacity.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 01:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  beryl is dead
Comment by Brian Propp (darweth) - Friday, 04 May 2007, 21:35 GMT
Confirmed on my machine.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 05 May 2007, 18:41 GMT
confirm too.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 05 May 2007, 18:46 GMT
corrections:
1) not related to /opt -> /usr move because is valid with beryl-git too (which has some files in /opt/gnome and was not updated recently)
2) this is beryl issue, not emerald's (heliodor has the same behaviour)

I don't know if this is a mainstream bug.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 07 May 2007, 07:11 GMT
It's related to the fact that libwnck no longer includes the complete patch to make this working in beryl/compiz. I will look at this in a short while.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 13 May 2007, 02:12 GMT
The problem is that libwnck has bugs. These bugs are (for some reasons I can't remeber right now) not apparent when you use metacity, but affect heliodor and emerald. There was a workaround in libwnck in earlier versions, I think JGC can fix them :)

If you want the exact reason, I think you can google a bit.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 20:12 GMT
OK, to complete this bugreport:
there's no bug in libwnck that causes this. This is a limitation in the windowmanager specification. Older versions of libwnck we had included a patch to assume a windowmanager would always have some non-existent extensions, which made beryl and compiz work with "always on top".
The last version of libwnck includes WM_ABOVE and WM_BELOW, which is a not yet official extension to the WM specification. Compiz already sets these hints so libwnck can pick them up, while beryl can't (beryl is a dead project, we should change to compiz).
Upgrading beryl to a recent compiz version will fix this bug.

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