Optionally attach modal dialogs

Add a preference /apps/mutter/general/attach_modal_dialogs. When
true, instead of having independent titlebars, modal dialogs appear
attached to the titlebar of the parent window and are moved
together with the parent window.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612726

NOTE: Patch copied from mutter and adapted for metacity.

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/display.c b/src/core/display.c
index 6dd13419..fd5dc545 100644
--- a/src/core/display.c
+++ b/src/core/display.c
@@ -5216,6 +5216,34 @@ prefs_changed_callback (MetaPreference pref,
       else
 	disable_compositor (display);
     }
+  else if (pref == META_PREF_ATTACH_MODAL_DIALOGS)
+    {
+      MetaDisplay *display = data;
+      GSList *windows;
+      GSList *tmp;
+
+      windows = meta_display_list_windows (display);
+
+      for (tmp = windows; tmp != NULL; tmp = tmp->next)
+        {
+          MetaWindow *w = tmp->data;
+          MetaWindow *parent = meta_window_get_transient_for (w);
+          meta_window_recalc_features (w);
+
+          if (w->type == META_WINDOW_MODAL_DIALOG && parent && parent != w)
+            {
+              int x, y;
+              /* Forcing a call to move_resize() does two things: first, it handles
+               * resizing the dialog frame window to the correct size when we remove
+               * or add the decorations. Second, it will take care of positioning the
+               * dialog as "attached" to the parent when we turn the preference on
+               * via the constrain_modal_dialog() constraint.
+               **/
+              meta_window_get_position (w, &x, &y);
+              meta_window_move (w, FALSE, x, y);
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
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