On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:20:35PM -0400, TJ Robotham wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:23:18PM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:35:10PM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > > But now, after the upgrade, both firefox and open office behave like > > > elitists: not only do they not tile in tile mode (they sit on top) they > > > don't allow me to do focusstack either to flip to other things under the > > > stack. Hence, MODKEY t, m, and the j and k don't work. I can make > > > firefox behave if I hit F11 (oddly enough), but nothing I can do can get > > > open office to behave. > > > > > > I have no Rules in my Rules section of config.h and I verified that this > > > is the same even with a vanilla config.def.h as my config.h. Suggestions? > > > > ... > > > > In any case, that fixes the bug and now openoffice and firefox behave. > > > > Thoughts? Peter > > > > I don't have any comments on the focus problems, but I find that openoffice > actually ignores having isfloating set to false in my rules. I'm guessing that > its insistence on not tiling is a side-effect of how manage() handles windows > initialized with fullscreen dimensions: by making them floating, no-border > clients AFTER calling applyrules(). I just deal with this by using > MODKEY+shift+space to toggle isfloating on the client. >
I should have said in my original report that the MODKEY+shift+space solution is the way I dealt with these problems; I had suspected that the isfloating rule is being ignored in such cases, but when we ran 5.8.2 it worked just fine; perhaps you have the same bug I do. Try the latest hg tip. Peter
