Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Christian Ridderström wrote: > there are similar settings there. If there are, and this is a common > thing, then maybe LyX could "ask" Gnome or KDE what these settings are? Lyx doesn't need kde or gnome to run. Alfredo

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-13 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Quick check: Both Mozilla and Netscape keep the 'Find' dialog always on > top. Good point... it's the same in Opera, and there I like the "on-top" behaviour. I went ahead and

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-13 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: I am not sure, this is fvwm2, and I've never needed to set this manually for any app. New windows so far are either placed on some empty part of the screen or under the mouse cursor. And I am happy with this. Now, LyX doesn't do it that way... Maybe it is really a generic prob

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > I think this is something you should let your window-manager do for you... > You set the window's attribute to "always on top", and if you don't want to > do this manually every time, you configure your window manager to use

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:27:15PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >I find it annoying that the floating windows (such as Layout->Character > > >at the moment) are not always on top. That is, I select text, select > > >Layout->Character, do my stuff, the

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:27:15PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > >I find it annoying that the floating windows (such as Layout->Character > >at the moment) are not always on top. That is, I select text, select > >Layout->Character, do my stuff, then select more text. Now the floating > >layout wind

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Darren Freeman wrote: Dear List, on LyX1.3.1CVS xforms-0.89 I find it annoying that the floating windows (such as Layout->Character at the moment) are not always on top. That is, I select text, select Layout->Character, do my stuff, then select more text. Now the floating layout window is hidden

Re: Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-12 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:38:29AM +1030, Darren Freeman wrote: > I have a feeling that the QT2 frontend solves this using docking or > something? Well for xforms I propose an extra checkbox for "always on > top" which lives either in the preferences, or in the commonly used > floating dialogues.

Feat. req: floating windows always on top

2003-03-12 Thread Darren Freeman
Dear List, on LyX1.3.1CVS xforms-0.89 I find it annoying that the floating windows (such as Layout->Character at the moment) are not always on top. That is, I select text, select Layout->Character, do my stuff, then select more text. Now the floating layout window is hidden since LyX is maximised