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pemsley / coot

Software for macromolecular model-building
http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/personal/pemsley/coot/
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Display Manager dialog is always on top #92

Open olibclarke opened 8 months ago

olibclarke commented 8 months ago

In 1.06 pre (on Mac), clicking the main window while the display manager is displayed should bring the main window to the front, and send the display manager to the back, but it doesn't - the display manager remains in front.

pemsley commented 8 months ago

"Transient" is the technical term. Transient windows appear infront of the window for which they are a transient. The behaviour you describe is intentional because that is the way transient windows are expected to behave (that's how they behave everywhere else on the desktop).

(That may not be The Right Thing for the Display Manager).

olibclarke commented 8 months ago

Hmmm - this is different behavior from Coot 0.9x. Is it better this way? I'm not sure - generally, if I interact with the main window I want everything else to get out of my way, but I can see arguments for both ways of doing it.

pemsley commented 8 months ago

(Probably as a consequence) I have the Display Manager open far less in GTK4 Coot than I did in GTK2 Coot.