[PD] pd-linux/irritating dialog box location

John Harrison johnharrisonwsu at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 15:47:44 CET 2008


The only reason I use gnome/compiz instead of gnome/metacity is to get
around this problem. With Compiz the dialog boxes show up as I expect them
to.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bill Gribble <grib at billgribble.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:29 +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
> > raise your hand if
> > a) you run Linux, and
> > b) you are really really really irritated by the fact that the
> > confirm-close, confirm-quit, file-open and file-save dialog boxes are
> > parented to the main Pd window, rather than the patch window you are
> > currently looking at.
>
> Hand raised, gnome/metacity.  I am, in fact, irritated with confirmation
> dialogs of any kind, and for me losing the confirm-close dialog alone
> was worth the trouble of installing pd-extended.
>
> Bill Gribble
>
>
>
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