Re: 4 modal dialog limit -- wm transient bug

"slebetman@yahoo.com" <slebetman@gmail.com> writes:

> # Multi level transient:
> toplevel .t
> wm transient .t .
> toplevel .t.t
> wm transient .t.t .t

Over a year ago I was working on a neat scheme for controlling
multiple transients, whereby the stack order was variable, but
all transients were above all regular windows. What I did was
make a hidden transient window, and all modal dialogs were
transient to it.

It didn't work well at all on windows, but it did work on Linux/X.

Things have changed since then, and it behaves even worse on
both Windows and Linux than before (see the bug and code at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1283635&group_id=12997&atid=112997)
With the introduction of [wm stackorder] and squashing the
raise-delay bug in X (KDE), I will probably use bindings
and raise, but no tricks of transients, if I get back to it.

-- 
Donald Arseneau                          asnd@triumf.ca