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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: popup windows, ICCCM compliance, and keyboard input
Message-ID: <8909191152.AA08662@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 11:52:49 GMT
References: <17649@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena
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> I may be suffering from brain rot, but for the life of me I can't
> figure out what combination of override_redirect, transient_for, and
> wmhints.input = True is needed to allow me to type in a popup window.

override_redirect = False, wmhints.input = True should be sufficient.
The semantics of transient_for (WM_TRANSIENT_FOR) are wm-specific
and it's possible that a wm could disallow input to windows with
this property (though I think that would be a big mistake).

> What I need is the words to tell the window manager to give a popup
> widget (at the moment I'm using a transientShellClass, but I've also
> tried overrideRedirectShellClass and wmShellClass) the input focus
> when I enter that popup.

I assume you mean overrideShellClass; if not, you're not using
the standard Xt.  WMShellClass is not intended to be instantiated
by applications; you should use TopLevelShellClass instead, if
TransientShellClass is not appropriate.  You might try modifying
the transient (Boolean) resource with either a TransientShell
or a TopLevelShell and see if that makes your wm any happier.

We certainly have such things working here...