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Re: always-on-top bug

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: 
The splashscreen of an app being displayed over ssh X11 forwarding stays
on top of other windows instead of going to background when I select a
Windows window. Normally, I would've never noticed this since
splashscreens usually whiz by, but I was on a slow connection, and this
was very noticeable.


Was this in multiwindow mode, or in rootless/rooted mode?  If the former,
then AFAIU this is expected behavior -- the windows are managed by the

Yes, this was in multiwindow mode. But multiwindow mode doesn't use the internal Windows window manager, does it? I had thought it used an emulation of it that tried to be as similar as possible.

A native Windows OpenOffice.org starts with a splashscreen that I can send to the background by clicking on a different window. An X11-forwarded OOo starts with a splashscreen that stays on top no matter what. Does this mean that the Windows OOo doesn't draw its splashscreen with an always-on-top instruction?

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