Merge pull request #411 from vojtechtrefny/main_keep-above

Add cmdline option to force blivet-gui to keep above other apps

blivet-gui

@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ def parse_options():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="blivet-gui")
     parser.add_argument("-v", "--version", action="store_true", dest="version", default=False,
                         help=_("show version information"))
+    parser.add_argument("--keep-above", action="store_true", dest="keep_above", default=False,
+                        help=_("keep blivet-gui window above other windows"))
     parser.add_argument("disks", metavar="disk", type=str, nargs="*",
                         help="run blivet-gui only on specified disk(s) (optional)")
 
@@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ def main():
             sockfile = output.split()[0]
 
             client = BlivetGUIClient(server_socket=sockfile)
-            BlivetGUI(client, exclusive_disks=options.disks)
+            BlivetGUI(client, exclusive_disks=options.disks, keep_above=options.keep_above)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

blivetgui/blivetgui.py

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class BlivetGUI(object):
 
     installer_mode = False
 
-    def __init__(self, client, exclusive_disks=None):
+    def __init__(self, client, exclusive_disks=None, keep_above=False):
 
         self.client = client
 
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ def __init__(self, client, exclusive_disks=None):
         # MainWindow
         self.main_window = self.builder.get_object("main_window")
         self.main_window.connect("delete-event", self.quit)
+        if keep_above:
+            self.main_window.set_keep_above(True)
 
         # Exception handling
         self.exc = BlivetGUIExceptionHandler(self.main_window, sys.excepthook)

man/blivet-gui.1

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ show this help information and exit
 .TP
 .BR \-v ", " \-\-version
 show version information and exit
+.TP
+.BR \-\-keep\-above
+keep the blivet-gui window above other windows
 
 .SH EXAMPLES
 You can run blivet-gui from a command line and specify one or more disks.
@@ -28,4 +31,4 @@ blivet-gui /dev/sda /dev/sdb
 Vojtech Trefny <vtrefny@redhat.com>
 
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-2020, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+
+2023, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+