On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 03:05:03PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 07:29:19AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > With X, the window manager is the one implementing window decorations > > (this isn't in the protocol, but it is a strong convention applications > > had to follow in practice). > > Except for when Google Chrome decided to implement its own window > decorations, which were of course completely foreign compared to > the rest of the toplevel windows on my display.
I haven't ever tried Chrome or Chromium (and I'll try to avoid them for as long as I can): you reinforce me on that :) > Fortunately, they decided to revert that decision, and today you can > configure Google Chrome to look and act like a normal window. Phew! > > I don't look forward to the day where the browser gives some random > > javascript advertisment control over its absolute position on my > > screen [...] > > Are you kidding? Javascript could do this *ages* ago. In the classical setting it can only beg the window manager (through ICCCM). The latter has the last word on it. > I wrote a series of little pages that showed how insidiously evil > Javascript actually is (or was): > > https://wooledge.org/~greg/jsabuse/ Nice :-) (FWIW: I can click at 3.html and 4.html: I guess Mozilla begs the WM to move/resize, but the WM says "nope". > Some of them still work. Some do not, as current browser versions have > tightened up their settings and no longer give Javascript quite as much > freedom as they originally did. I sure hope. But I'm sceptical: the browser maker's perspective is the ad industry's perspective (I'm not assuming some evil conspiracy, just plain boring cultural immersion). > > or over its window decorations. > > I wouldn't know anything about that in particular. I don't even want to ;-) Cheers & thanks for the little javascript snippets. You definitely picked your background colours with fury :-D -- tomás
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