On 27Mar2022 16:23, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have a tkinter app (Ubuntu/X11 env) whose main window should always be
>displayed on the currently visible workspace. Is there some way to set that
>attribute programmatically? I see that there is a tkinter.Wm class and that
>Toplevel widgets have a wm_attributes method, but haven't found any
>examples in the library doc or on the wider net which demonstrate control
>of this particular window manager interaction.
I fear not. That is normally a window manager-side control. So you might
tell your window manager to keep that window on the main workspace. I
might be wrong - there might be wm_attributes which are meant to request
this behaviour (from the window manager), But I'm pretty sure when I was
using FVWM I did this on the window manager side, saying "these apps
should be on desktop N" and stuff like that.
>(I don't care about Windows
>or Mac, at least for the time being.)
I think this is window manager stuff on the Mac too, in that you can
tell the desktop to put an app's windows on every desktop, of a specific
desktop, or just wherever they get opened.
Hmm... Yeah, here's part of my FVWM config:
Style "sticky" Sticky
Style "topsticky" UseStyle sticky, StaysOnTop, WindowListSkip
Style "bottomsticky" UseStyle sticky, StaysOnBottom
Style "X2x" UseStyle topsticky
Style "gkrellm" UseStyle bottomsticky
which uses the application names to specify how the WM treats them. The
two examples are gkrellm, a load monitor, to be always on the current
workspace, below/behind everything else, and x2x to be on every
workspace, above everything else. (X2x runs a 1-pixel-wide full height
window at the edge of the display to notice the mouse hit that edge, and
to take it and drive another X11 display - thus allowing one to slide
the mouse from the primary display to the adjacent display run by
another computer; see also x2vnc et al).
But alas, these are WM-side controls. But maybe the WM might know about
and honour some wm_attributes? I have no knowledge there.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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