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I noticed a minor problem in DR. When you have open several windows in DR, like rendering, and the various views, and the put some other app forward (like an editor for example). Now when you do ALT-TAB to switch back to DR, then only the last active window comes forward. IMO this usually happens when the windows are not properly parented to the main document window. I would expect that DR comes completely to the front with all it's windows and main window as the background.

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The window system for DR is an ugly hack, with its "not quite MDI" child windows that don't behave as you would expect. Unfortunately since GTK does not support MDI, and nobody seems to want a GIMP-style multiple-window interface, I'm not sure what can be done about this.

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Can you try to parent he childwindows to the mainframe? IMO this should resolve this. I had a similar issue in Java and at least there this was the case, because I created each window as a seperate window without a parent node. Just a guess, maybe this is already done, and GTK simply handles it wrong. It's not really a big deal, I just wanted to mention it, because I noticed it now several times.

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I saw the same problem with my VC++ Studio Express, when I have the floating search window opened and do some Alt-TABbing. So this is not strictly a GTK problem it seems.

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A similar problem is when i minimise all (window-m) the background image window stays displayed. Could be related i guess?

 

That's probably because it's a dialog window. Dialogs don't usually get minimised in my experience (although generally they also prevent the application itself from being minimised).

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