GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 102541
Stay on top keybinding
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: metacity Severity: enhancement Version: 2.4.1 Synopsis: Hook for window menu items? Bugzilla-Product: metacity Bugzilla-Component: general Description: There have been several suggestions for things people would like to see in the window menu (for instance, my favorite is an Always On Top item - there are many times when I've wanted to have this for arbitrary windows and not just those, like xmms, where it "seems appropriate"), and they've been smacked down, perhaps correctly, as the ever-to-be-avoided "crack." I suggest a general solution as some sort of hook whereby one could add menu items in external software. It might (I hope) be simple to implement, and thus not complicate the Metacity source as Havoc is keen to avoid, but then let external projects more easily add tweaks for those who want them. (The world needs a compromise between the clunky behemoth Sawfish and the elegant but less-featured current Metacity ...) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-04 20:06 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, hp@redhat.com.
I can't really think of a simple way to implement a hook like this. However a keybinding for "stay on top" sounds reasonable, and you could of course have "stay on top" in the menu of an applet or something like that (libwnck-style window manager accessory, such as a window list). Those both seem like "make it possible" solutions that are pretty simple. I'll repurpose this bug to be for a stay on top keybinding.
this looks like a dupe of Bug 98387, and that bug has patches and a lot more discussion.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98387 ***