hey list,
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
... why does pd-vanilla behave differently on different platforms? how come these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
hi damian,
let's hope that miller is using pd-vanilla on linux, but wait maybe he doesn't mind!
pat
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----- Original Message ---- From: Damian Stewart damian@frey.co.nz To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, 2 December, 2008 12:29:06 PM Subject: [PD] pd-linux/irritating dialog box location
hey list,
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
... why does pd-vanilla behave differently on different platforms? how come these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
Damian Stewart wrote:
... why does pd-vanilla behave differently on different platforms? how come
it doesn't. but different platforms behave differently, doh
these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
you can configure your window manager on linux to make the popup appear on top of old windows (or not!) you cannot configure your window manager on windows.
mfg,.asdr IOhannes
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
you can configure your window manager on linux to make the popup appear on top of old windows (or not!) you cannot configure your window manager on windows.
really? wonderful, how do i do this?
Damian Stewart wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
you can configure your window manager on linux to make the popup appear on top of old windows (or not!) you cannot configure your window manager on windows.
really? wonderful, how do i do this?
depends on your window manager :-) (indeed one of the big drawbacks in the linux world; while OSX and w32 basically offer you a single, unconfigurable window manager, on linux you get loads of different window managers all configureable in _different_ ways!)
anyhow, assuming you are using kde, try playing around with kcontrol (Desktop->Window Behaviour). i keep forgetting the exact required settings though (i don't change the behaviour that often)
fgam,r IOhannes
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
anyhow, assuming you are using kde, try playing around with kcontrol (Desktop->Window Behaviour). i keep forgetting the exact required settings though (i don't change the behaviour that often)
i'm on gnome/metacity, can't figure out how to do it...
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:29 +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
Hand raised, gnome/metacity. I am, in fact, irritated with confirmation dialogs of any kind, and for me losing the confirm-close dialog alone was worth the trouble of installing pd-extended.
Bill Gribble
The only reason I use gnome/compiz instead of gnome/metacity is to get around this problem. With Compiz the dialog boxes show up as I expect them to.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bill Gribble grib@billgribble.com wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:29 +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
Hand raised, gnome/metacity. I am, in fact, irritated with confirmation dialogs of any kind, and for me losing the confirm-close dialog alone was worth the trouble of installing pd-extended.
Bill Gribble
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this has been bugging me to no end as well.
i am on ubuntu and i will see if there's a way to change it now.
hi damian
this is _not_ a general linux problem. i guess, it is related to the window manager. i am using fluxbox and don't have that problem. but i saw it as well on gnome/metacity.
roman
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:29 +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
hey list,
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
... why does pd-vanilla behave differently on different platforms? how come these dialogs appear over the top of other windows on OSX/Windows, but under on Linux? ..wtf?
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Hallo, Damian Stewart hat gesagt: // Damian Stewart wrote:
raise your hand if a) you run Linux, and b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are currently looking at.
My hands stay down for b) because I'm also using a less inflexible window manager than metacity - even when Blackbox doesn't let you configure that much, it lets you configure window raising.
Anyway you can add a "raise ." in various places of pd.tk e.g. here:
376 proc menu_quit {} { 377 raise . 378 pd {pd verifyquit;}}
This should raise the whole Pd main window before quitting.
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