Tim,
A small problem that has bugged me for a while. On my HTPC I use kdialog passive popups to remind me when a TV recording starts or stops. This is helpful to me when I run XBMC because I run XBMC
in
full screen.
Originally when I built my HTPC I used KDE 3.5.10. The popups always appeared in front of XBMC, which satisfied my intent.
Through the past many months I updated the HTPC: the operating system from Slackware 12.2 to 14.0, KDE 3.5.10 to Trinity GIT, Nvidia proprietary drivers, and XBMC from 9.01 to 10.1.
The popups no longer appear in front of XBMC. When I toggle XBMC from full screen to windowed mode I can see the kdialog popups,
but
not when XBMC is in full mode. The popups appear in front of
other
apps.
This is not a killer problem. :-) I realize there are several variables at play, but I don't know how the kdialog mechanism works. I'd appreciate ideas for determining whether Trinity
(twin?)
or kdialog is the culprit.
Any chance XBMC is now using an override redirect window? If so, nothing would be able to pop up over the XBMC window.
If XBMC is still using a traditional managed window, then my first suspect would be twin's focus stealing prevention.
I hope this helps!
This is interesting. The kdialog passive popups are once again appearing on top of xbmc. Same xbmc package as I had before so something else changed in Trinity within the past 4 months, or possibly in my configurations, although with the htpc I seldom tinker with that. I wonder what fixed the problem....
Oh well, nice to see thenm working again! :-)
Darrell
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Darrell Anderson