OS/X problem: dialogs *above* tool tips and pop-up menus!

Hi,
I have recently installed inkscape on my Mac through Fink, and I have the following problem: the dialogs appear in front of all the other (X11) windows created by Inkscape, including tool tips and pop-up menus.
This means that when I open the preferences dialog (for example), the tool-tips for the dialog's buttons appear *behind* the dialog itself, and the same goes for pop-up menus! This makes inkscape pretty hard to use, to say the least :-).
I found out that I'm able to cycle through the various values of a pop-up menu using the mouse wheel, and therefore tried to change the value for "dialogs on top" (or something like this) from "None" to "Normal" and then "Aggressive", but this didn't solve my problem. I also tried to disable the "focus follows mouse" policy of my window manager (Apple's WM), without success either.
Is there any Mac user out there with the same problem? Does anyone have an idea of how to fix it?
(I must say that I have several other X11 applications on my Mac [OpenOffice, Gimp, XEphem and Scribus], and they don't have this problem).
Apart from that, thanks to all the developers for the wonderful work on Inkscape!
Michel.

This means that when I open the preferences dialog (for example), the tool-tips for the dialog's buttons appear *behind* the dialog itself, and the same goes for pop-up menus! This makes inkscape pretty hard to use, to say the least :-).
I can't suggest anything but set "Dialogs on top: None" in preferences. This makes dialogs behave as regular windows. If this does not help, Inkscape can't really do anything about it. The real problem is with GTK implementation for OSX. Try upgrading your GTK and/or submitting a bug to the GTK developers.
(I must say that I have several other X11 applications on my Mac [OpenOffice, Gimp, XEphem and Scribus], and they don't have this problem).
Which version of Gimp? Have you tried the latest 2.1 series? I'd be interested to know how it behaves on OSX.

bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> writes:
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I can't suggest anything but set "Dialogs on top: None" in preferences. This makes dialogs behave as regular windows. If this does not help, Inkscape can't really do anything about it.
Ok, I had already tried that, and the problem persists. Thanks anyway.
The real problem is with GTK implementation for OSX. Try upgrading your GTK and/or submitting a bug to the GTK developers.
I'm afraid I'll have to wait until a new version appears in Fink, as I don't really have time to invest in recompiling the whole thing by hand right now, unfortunately.
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Which version of Gimp? Have you tried the latest 2.1 series? I'd be interested to know how it behaves on OSX.
No, I'm using 2.0.3 right now.
Anyway, since according to you Inkscape is not the cuplrit, I'll see elsewhere.
Thanks for your help.
Michel.
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bulia byak
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Michel Schinz