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visually differentiate "always on top" windows
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Window Buttons

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Description unhammer+dill 2017-05-02 16:54:25 CEST
I have all my windows maximized. I somehow clicked "Always on top" on Emacs without meaning to, and then got frustrated when Firefox wouldn't show when I clicked it in the panel (thinking Firefox had crashed) – it took me a while to check the always-on-top-state of Emacs. A less experienced user might never have thought to check it.

Feature request: some sort of visual indication in the panel on the windows that are always on top. I don't know what a good indicator would be, perhaps bolded font or a background colour that is 70 % of the "active window" colour or just a "*" before the window title. This kind of feature might also make sense for "always hide" windows.
Comment 1 haarp 2018-08-22 21:57:25 CEST
Bold or underlined text seems like a good idea.
Comment 2 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2020-05-22 01:19:55 CEST
This is very hard to get intuitively right - especially as there is no other indication (e.g. in the window decoration, which would be a much more obvious place) that a window is marked as "always on top".

So for now this is a wontfix because I have no clue how to properly signify this (without people having to read docs to understand).
Comment 3 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 02:02:29 CEST
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Bug #13544

Reported by:
unhammer+dill
Reported on: 2017-05-02
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

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Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
2 users

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