[kde-linux] tcl/tk window popup issue

[andrew kar]

john_ozarchuk at goodyear.com wrote:

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>We are running KDE3.2.1 in our production environment (provided with Novell's SLES9 operating system), and are currently on hold with
>our migration due to an issue with popup windows.  Per our developers, here is the problem:
>
>Default tcl/tk behavoir is for a newly created toplevel or "popup" widget to be displayed by the window manager above other windows,
>regardless of the raised/lowered status of the parent window.  Our observation of the behavoir of tcl/tk widgets on the KWIN window
>manager under KDE 3.2.1 is that the widgets' parent must be raised for the child widget to be raised, or, failing that, the software
>developer has to implement an explicit raise command in the popup widget, which is not required on other window managers.  This
>undesirable behavoir is observed for both user-defined applications as well as standard toplevel widget library functions, and in the
>latter case, it is not desirable to change the behavoir of the widgets which come with the tcl/tk installed library. This behavoir is
>not exhibited running on the Metacity window manager which installed in place of KWIN on the same machine, nor on any of our UNIX
>operating systems, going back years.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or a resolution, short of upgrading KDE to 3.4?  Will KDE 3.4 even resolve this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
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KDE does not need to run with the kwin window manager. Check your 
startkde script (near the end) to see how to run kde with a window 
manager of your choice. Depending on how your distro modified their 
startkde script you can either start another wm by setting a variable or 
else use the ksessionmanager -windowmanager switch.