always on top command line trick?

[gnuoob]

im sure one exists and im tired of reading a web site only to click the command line window open all the time.

anyone know the arguement to keep it on top of all other open windows?

[gnuoob]

well in googling for an answer i just now googled my own question.

hehehee

go figure...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=linux+command+window+always+on+top&btnG=Search

4 or 5th one down



still looking :)

[bwkaz]

What you want isn't specific to terminal emulator programs. (I assume that's what you meant by "command line window".) It can be done with any program if your window manager supports it. It should be an option somewhere in the window decorations; perhaps a right-click option on the window's titlebar.

If you want to give an option to do it from the command line, we'd have to know which terminal emulator program you're using, and then we'd have to look at that program's manpage to see if there's any way to get it to request that the window manager keep it on top. (Gtk+, for instance, has a gtk_window_set_keep_above() (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-keep-above) function that will cause it to ask the WM to keep the given window above all others on the desktop. You would need to figure out how to get your terminal emulator to call this function, assuming your terminal emulator uses Gtk+. Qt probably has something similar.)

[gnuoob]

It should be an option somewhere in the window decorations;

I looked and looked and opened the help files and nothing i could find mentioned any of the key words i typed in..."top, always, sticky,high, level,etc...."

perhaps a right-click option on the window's titlebar.
so why TF does it show up when i right click it? i would have expected it to show up in the setting somewhere. heck no, it does show up when i right click the title bar. go figure.

you score the point for the solve

thank you but this also brings up the same reason i have had difficulty learning linux. no consistency. the whole OS is just a bunch of "you just have to know it" kinda stuff. well im trying and thank you again.

:)