GNU bug report logs - #3464
23.0.94; Please add new frame parameter for frame stacking order

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Subject: Re: bug#3464: 23.0.94;
 Please add new frame parameter for frame stacking order
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@HIDDEN> writes:

> A frame configuration saves the frame parameters of a set of frames.
> This information records, for each frame, whether it is visible,
> invisible, or iconified.
>
> But it does not record the frame stacking order: which frames are in
> front of which other frames.  This is an important part of a user's
> idea of what a frame configuration should be: Restoring a frame config
> should restore the set of frames as they were when the config was
> saved, including their positions front to back.
>
> Feature request: Add this information to frame configs.  Perhaps we
> could add to each frame, as a frame parameter, its current stacking
> order.  Then we could perhaps make `set-frame-configuration' restore
> this saved order.

This still seems to be the case -- the frame stacking order is not
preserved.

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Subject: 23.0.94; Please add new frame parameter for frame stacking order
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A frame configuration saves the frame parameters of a set of frames.
This information records, for each frame, whether it is visible,
invisible, or iconified.

But it does not record the frame stacking order: which frames are in
front of which other frames.  This is an important part of a user's
idea of what a frame configuration should be: Restoring a frame config
should restore the set of frames as they were when the config was
saved, including their positions front to back.

Feature request: Add this information to frame configs.  Perhaps we
could add to each frame, as a frame parameter, its current stacking
order.  Then we could perhaps make `set-frame-configuration' restore
this saved order.

I'm assuming this info can be obtained somehow from the window
manager.

I wonder too if we couldn't have a command to raise or lower a frame
just one notch at at time in the stacking order. Currently, we can
only raise it to the front or lower it to the back.


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