Other ways to disable Wm in Tkinter?

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

brian at liaone.ne.mediaone.net wrote:
> 

[bobbitt]

> Thus, my question - can one disable the window manager (or at least
> disable window movement) short of withdraw/overrideredirect/deiconify?
> It goes without saying that using grab_set_global is a bit too brutal.
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 

Nuking or disabling people's window managers is not as brutal as
grab_set_global?????  <.9 wince>

Why do you need to do this?  I'd advise against it.  I think all you're
going to accomplish is pissing people off.

If you absolutely *must*, try mapping an invisible window that covers
the whole root window and intercepting all the events, only passing on
the required ones to the dialog.  But I think you'd have to write a C
extension to do this, which wouldn't be portable.  And it seems pretty
kludgy to me. ...

<don't-touch-that-wm>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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