I had to open a TK GUI, which is not under control of the underlaying window manager.
There is an alternate page from Larry Smith: weedesk
The problems to be solved are:
To fulfill 1 "wm overrideredirect $toplevel 1" is the starting point. But then GUI has to control the focus fully. This also removes the control by window manager, but the moving of the GUI window has to be implemented.
This script here is my solution for
package require Tk package provide vlxwm 0.1 namespace eval vlxwm { } namespace eval vlxwm::focus { variable helper } namespace eval vlxwm::move { variable controlID } ####################################################################### proc vlxwm::focus::save {} { variable helper if ![info exists helper] { ::set helper .xxx[clock clicks] # create a new toplevel window # this is controlled by the window manager toplevel $helper wm geometry $helper 0x0-1-1 } raise $helper update wm withdraw $helper after 250 } proc vlxwm::focus::restore {} { variable helper if ![info exists helper] return # destroy this toplevel and windows manager focus on the last know window # which is not this gui, because of overrideredirect destroy $helper unset helper } proc vlxwm::focus::set {w} { save ::bind $w <Leave> vlxwm::focus::restore wm overrideredirect [winfo toplevel $w] 0 raise $w focus -force $w wm overrideredirect [winfo toplevel $w] 1 } proc vlxwm::focus::bind {w} { ::bind $w <Leave> +[list vlxwm::focus::restore] ::bind $w <ButtonPress-1> +[list vlxwm::focus::set %W] } ####################################################################### # enable the move of the window proc vlxwm::move::Enable {wg x y} { variable controlID control [winfo toplevel $wg] $x $y } proc vlxwm::move::Disable {} { variable controlID after cancel $controlID } proc vlxwm::move::control {wg x y} { variable controlID if [info exists controlID] {after cancel $controlID} # top left corner of toplevel set tx [winfo x $wg] set ty [winfo y $wg] # get current possion set npx [winfo pointerx $wg] set npy [winfo pointery $wg] set dpx [expr {$npx - $x}] set dpy [expr {$npy - $y}] # new toplevel position set ntx [expr {$tx + $dpx}] set nty [expr {$ty + $dpy}] wm geometry $wg +${ntx}+${nty} set controlID [after 10 [list vlxwm::move::control $wg $npx $npy]] } proc vlxwm::move::bind {wg} { ::bind $wg <ButtonPress-1> +[list vlxwm::move::Enable %W %X %Y] ::bind $wg <ButtonRelease-1> +[list vlxwm::move::Disable] } ########################################################## ########################################################## proc leave args { puts "gui left" } proc press args { puts "pressed" } wm withdraw . toplevel .my -bg black -border 5 wm overrideredirect .my 1 label .my.move -text move -bg seashell text .my.text -height 10 -width 40 button .my.exit -command exit -text exit grid .my.move -sticky we grid .my.text -sticky nwse grid .my.exit -sticky nwse ::bind .my.text <ButtonPress-1> [list press] ::bind .my <Leave> [list leave] vlxwm::move::bind .my.move vlxwm::focus::bind .my.text