Description Craig Milo Rogers 2006-08-05 04:19:09 EDT

Detached views/windows in Eclipse are demonstrably not transient:  they are saved and restored across changes in perspective (whether or not they should be cleared across perspective changes is the subject of another bug report), and they're even saved and restored across invocations of Eclipse.  However, on my Linux system, they're apparently marked as transient windows and do not have windo titles attached.

Whether or not this is a problem depends, in part, on your window manager, and how you use it. I use FVWM, and the current detached windows are difficult to resize, move, find in a menu of current windows, etc.  Turning on transient window decorations helps, but still doesn't supply a menu.

I've filed this report in Platform/UI, as have other posters on other detached view problem.  The solution might involve SWT changes, though, in order to control the X window transient flag and supply a window title to detached views.