So awesome's fullscreen disallows other windows poping up on top of it. This is very much unusual in the window manager world, and it seems just about everything else does not behave this way. In most things, when a popup comes up and you have a fullscreen window, it allows that popup in front since it has focus.
After a fair bit of thought, I think this is the right and most consistent behaviour: - Modal popups (ones that block the parent window) work properly - http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#STACKINGORDER says thet it's okay to: "choose to put some windows in different stacking positions, for example to allow the user to bring currently a active window to the top and return it back when the window looses focus. " - Some of my art apps (MyPaint, GIMP) expect this behaviour. They like to run fullscreen, and have binds to bring dialogs up temporarily. Then, when the dialog has let the user choose a colour or whatever, it goes back below. - It's somewhat confusing to have windows not appear when you expect them. - Focussing rules get a bit sloppy with this, as the window that focusses on spawn either goes behind still focussed or loses focus unexpectedly. Sorry if this has been fixed in a newer version already, but if it hasn't... what do you folks think? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-devel-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
