[Info-vax] DECwindows: keep a window always on top?

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
Fri Sep 18 13:46:02 EDT 2009


In article <006976ee$0$5062$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> This has implications with regards to focus. Say you have a clock which
> you want to always be visible. But your Decterm overlaps with the
> clock's window. So when you type in the decterm, it would be the window
> in focus, but it would not be the window on top because your clock would
> be above it. So you get into situations where your cursor is obscured by
> the clock's window.

Not a problem for me since the window in focus is the one with the mouse 
pointer in it, not the one on top.  I regularly type into windows which 
are not on top (perhaps while reading something from a window which is 
on top).




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