05-23-2020, 08:51 AM | #1 |
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Reaper's internal windows in Linux : always on top?
While I see the "Always on top" option for the windows of all applications running in Ubuntu Studio (including Reaper's main window), the internal windows of Reaper (i.e., FX Chains windows) do not seem to show that option - only "Roll window up", and no pin as in Windows -. What option do we have to set some of those internal Reaper windows on top? For example, the usual situation of setting an FX Chain on top while working with the MIDI Editor in the background?
Thanks in advance! [EDIT January 2021] : I FOUND IT! In a similar way to what FeedtheCat kindly pointed out in this thread : https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....72#post2398772 there is an option in the reaper.ini file called "gdk_owned_windows_keep_above" which is set to "auto" and must be set to 0 to enable both the "Always on top" and "Keep below other windows" options in any Reaper's window. Reaper's main window most likely benefits from having the "Keep below" option enabled... Last edited by Soli Deo Gloria; 01-29-2021 at 08:35 PM. |
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It seems it's greyed-out for me in all Reaper windows (all except the main window for Reaper). It's there in the right-click menu from the titlebar, but can't be used. XFCE, Xubuntu 20.04
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Exactly! And that's the issue itself : we don't seem to have the ability by now, in the Linux version of Reaper, to set Reaper's internal windows to stay on top. I just hope Justin reads this... |
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05-23-2020, 08:37 PM | #6 |
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Yes, those things help, indeed. I´ll have to arrange things on the screen in order to have everything available without doing too much of a mess. And I hope that, at some point, the "always on top" functionality will be also available for the internal windows. Maybe, being Linux, there is some potential hack that can be applied on a OS basis. We´ll see...
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06-12-2020, 01:11 AM | #7 |
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I know it's been a while, but I'm 90% sure this is a WM thing, not a Reaper thing. I would try asking in the forums of the WM/DE you use to see if they have any recommendations for forcing certain windows to stay on top. I personally use bspwm (a tiling window manager), and it allows me to setup rules for how certain windows are treated (although Reaper doesn't label the metadata correctly, so it's a bit annoying to setup, but still very possible). As an example, I could use a rule to force a window with certain attributes float (instead of tiling) and to be a certain size. Or I could use them to force a window with certain attributes to always be on top. To be clear, this isn't a recommendation for bspwm, I'm just using it to illustrate why I think you'd be better off asking the your WM/DE's forums.
With my understanding of how these systems operate, Reaper wouldn't really have much control over how the window itself is presented, only the content inside it. Hopefully this isn't too late to be useful. |
06-12-2020, 07:06 AM | #8 |
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No, it's not late at all! Thank you so much for the insight! That's really of help, since it points me to the right direction, I think. I see that it has to be an OS thing, and it makes sense after all. Since it puzzled me how the "always on top" option was greyed out in Reaper's window, I'll try that app you mention. In any case I 'll write to you, if you don't mind, to ask for help if I can't solve any particular difficulty.
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01-29-2021, 08:30 PM | #9 |
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I finally found the answer, and added it to the first post...
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