Set the application always on top

[Miles Bader]

Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> I am looking for an X command (?) to set my program on top level.
>> 
>> In fact, this is a SplashScreen shown during transition between two
>> program execution : in order to mask windows during closing and loading.
>
> Why not just unmap the old windows, open a simple progress bar in a
> window the user can hide and defer mapping the new windows until
> everything is actually ready ?

I agree -- that's a much more user-friendly way (aka, a "users won't
hate your app" way).

-Miles


-- 
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the
living tissue of the city.  Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable;
moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere
islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.
[James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]