Pygtk: How to remove title bar from a window

[Nick Atkins]

Hi all,

I am writing an application using pyGTK that has several pop-up dialogs
that show and hide in succession. I would like to prevent the user
from closing the dialog and if possible I'd like to use a "title
bar-less" window with a normal border so the X is not even available to
click. Is this possible? I have tried using
window.set_deco rated(FALSE) but this also removes the border making the
window look quite strange.

Thanks,

Nick.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Nick Atkins wrote:

Hi all,

I am writing an application using pyGTK that has several pop-up dialogs
that show and hide in succession. I would like to prevent the user
from closing the dialog and if possible I'd like to use a "title
bar-less" window with a normal border so the X is not even available to
click. Is this possible? I have tried using
window.set_deco rated(FALSE) but this also removes the border making the
window look quite strange.

Draw your own border then. And don't rely on the user not beeing able to
close the window - xkill is at hand, and even if the average user doesn't
know about it - it _will_ be used.
--
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

[Nick Atkins]

Thanks for the reply Diez.

I'm not sure I can draw a border on its own with pyGTK but admittedly I
am not yet an expert. I have the following minimal test program which
opens a window and I cannot get it to draw a window with no title bar,
just a border:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import pygtk
pygtk.require(' 2.0')
import gtk

if __name__ == "__main__":
# create a popup
w = gtk.Window()
w.set_size_requ est(100, 100)
w.set_decorated (False)
w.set_has_frame (False)
w.set_border_wi dth(10)
w.show()
gtk.main()

I tried removing the set_decorated and set_has_frame lines and changing
them to True but I either get a complete title-bar window or nothing at
all.

Any ideas? Thanks.