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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: De-Transient'ing a transientShellWidget
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Date: 2 Feb 90 16:34:34 GMT
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> My application has a popup menu.  That menu is implemented as a
> transientShellWidget.  This all works just fine.

> What I've tried is to turn off override_redirect and then do a PopUp.

Transients should not set overrideRedirect (By default), so turning this off
should have no effect.

> I've also tried turning off the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property but that hasn't
> made any difference.

The ICCCM only requires window managers to look at these properties on a mapping
transition.  Have you tried to change the properties, and then unmap/remap the
window?

> I'd just destroy the menu widgets and recreate them differently...

You could have two copies of your menus, and only show one.  Expensive in
memory, but it would be fast.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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