Window always on the top

[David Sharp]

On 10/25/07, fatima zahra kettani <kettanifatimazahra at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am also interested by keeping a window always on top through configuration
> as you have explained in the second part of your mail.
> I know that sawfish can do this. Can any one tell me if there is another
> window manager that have this functionnality?

Enlightenment and Compiz can both do this.

> Best regards,
> fatimazahra
>
>
> Harald Braumann <harry at unheit.net> a écrit :
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:55:08 +0200
> De: Harald Braumann <harry at unheit.net>
> À: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Objet: Re: Window always on the top
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:31:25 +0000
> "Peppino Incasa" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > how do i set my window to be always on top of the desktop?
> This is the duty of your window manager. It depends on which one you
> use. See its documentation.
>
> Right click on the title bar and see if there's a "always on top"
> option or similar. Or maybe a "layer" submenu.
>
> Also you'll usually have some buttons in the title bar, besides the
> usual close/minimise/maximise buttons, with a window menu.
>
> Some window manager also let you configure certain windows to be always
> on top, when they appear, so you don't have to set that option each
> time. Usually this works by identifying the window by WM_NAME and
> WM_CLASS. If this is the case, and you have to specify these values
> manually (like in some config file) call `xprop' in an xterm, click on
> the window you want to configure, and look in xprop's output for the
> entries `WM_CLASS' and `WM_NAME'
>
> Regards,
> harry
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