GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86751
gnome panels are always on top
Last modified: 2009-08-16 15:13:28 UTC
Package: sawfish Severity: normal Version: 2.0 Synopsis: gnome panels are always on top Bugzilla-Product: sawfish Bugzilla-Component: Window Manager Description: GNOME 2.0 panels are always on top. This is unusable in case of programs like xawtv or mplayer that can switch to fullscreen mode. Because then there still the panel on screen. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-06-28 13:25 ------- Unknown version unspecified in product sawfish. Setting version to "1.0". Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jsh@pixelslut.com.
Gnome 1 has an option to specify if the panel should stay above or below other windows, that doesn't seem to be in gnome 2, which is bad, it means it's possible to lose something like a shaded window under the panel and not be able to get it back without closing the panel (if it's a menu panel and thus lacking in minimise buttons). Really the panel should probably be anchored just above the "desktop" (be it nautilus or nothing) forcing everything else on top of it. It would be nice to see this come back as a config option
I find this disturbing too. The default bottom panel stays below a "fullscreen window" but the menu panel does not. Please provide some way of changing this behavior.
is this really something to do with sawfish? sounds like a panel option?
I agree with John that this should be in gnome-panel. This has been heavily discussed in bug #92650. I'll reopen this to mark it as a duplicate of that one.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92650 ***