"Finishing Steam cloud sync..." dialog window sticky and always-on-top

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#256 · opened 2012-12-22 by ghost · updated 2013-01-25 · 4 comments · github

?ghost 2012-12-22 github

When exiting steam, the little dialog window that is displayed while Steam does its cloudy stuff is sticky (visible on all virtual desktops), as well as always-on-top (no other desktop window can cover it). This is not a good idea, it is quite disruptive.
Curiously enough, the "Connecting Steam account: xxxx" dialog window displayed when Steam is starting, doesn't have this issue.

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2499 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:
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Operating System Version:
    Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-4-amd64
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11204000

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 260/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.19
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x5e2
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1680 x 1050
    Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
    Primary Display Size: 18.62" x 11.65"  (21.93" diag)
                                            47.3cm x 29.6cm  (55.7cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 896 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: SigmaTel STAC9721,23

Memory:
    RAM:  5984 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  102350 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  60763 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
    Fri Dec 21 20:02:24 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121221210218_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-f6305fcc-0867-44dc-8287-579da2121221''
    Fri Dec 21 22:30:43 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20121221233032_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-42ab57c6-1caf-4844-9afb-2cf4b2121221''
    Sat Dec 22 02:45:02 2012 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20121222034500_1.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''

Mmdaffin 2012-12-22 github

This issue is related to the general bad window management in steam (all windows seem to be main windows no matter what their purpose. see #45

?ghost 2013-01-23 github

Bumping this. Come on, guys, this is a rather trivial bug with big annoyance potential, especially when your Cloud decides to get slower, and the dialog is bothering me for more than a few seconds. You already have one such dialog behaving correctly.

Also, james147 is incorrect, this issue has nothing to do with what type of window it is, just with what properties it has (sticky and always-on-top).

Ddavidw-valve maintainer 2013-01-24 github

Will be fixed in the next release.

?ghost 2013-01-25 github

Well, guess what? It's not fixed. Same behavior as before.

Nothing extracted yet.