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[Bug 272083] Re: Zenity windows appear underneath others

 

Hi all

The zenity man page says that "zenity tries to find the terminal window
it was launched from, and stays on top of that. You can disable it by
unsetting the WINDOWID variable."

I tried and this works fine for me:

eog -f background.jpg &
sleep1 
# (to let eog find time to show the background image)

WINDOWID=
# yes:  = and then nothing

zenity <something>


This makes zenity appear "on top" of the background image.

You may have other issues, but this works  for me :D

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Title:
  Zenity windows appear underneath others

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  Fix Released
Status in Zenity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “zenity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: zenity

  Current Intrepid, zenity 2.23.3.1-0ubuntu1.

  Happens with Compiz or Metacity as window manager.

  zenity --title "Title" --entry --text "Message"

  The popup appears below all my other windows, rather than on top. It
  worked fine in Hardy.

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