[Tkinter-discuss] Re: Modal dialog behavior

[Martin Franklin]

Michael Lange wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I encoutered a strange behavior of modal dialog windows on linux, which depends on
> the window manager I use.
> I use a message box to notify the user that a process that takes a while has finished.
> Now when I switch to another workspace while this process is running, the dialog box
> should ideally pop up on the current workspace; this worked as expected with tk-8.3.3,
> now with tk-8.4.5 I get the following:
> 
> XFCE: it still works as expected
> 

Michael,

Could you share a small snippet of code that exhibits this behavior?  I
use XFCE4 by default but can test with at least GNOME (I think I still
have KDE on an older machine somewhere...)  I also have a couple of 
version of Tk installed so we can at least narrow it down

Martin.