On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 02:17:45AM +0000, ruby R53 wrote: > I used FVWM for less than like 2 hours, and then, when I came back to dwm, I > noticed all my windows were being treated as dialog ones, and so none of them > respected my default window layout (monocle). > > I'm currently running dwm 6.6 on Gentoo, provided by their official package > repository. If it matters, I also have the following patches applied to it: > > dwm-bartabgroups-20210802-138b405.diff > dwm-center-6.2.diff > dwm-preventfocusshift-20240831-6.5.diff > dwm-refreshrate-20230826-9554a10.diff > dwm-removeborder-20220626-d3f93c7.diff > > But I don't think it might be their fault, as I've been using them almost > since I started using dwm as well (months ago), and never had any problems > with them. > > Then, I've also installed dwmblocks as I came back from FVWM. I thought it > could be the issue as well, but after starting dwm without it, there was no > difference whatsoever. > > So, what could possibly be causing this? Could FVWM have interfered with how > windows behave in X, or could it actually be dwmblocks' fault and I didn't > catch it? > > The weirdest part is how _all_ windows are affected. No matter what program I > launch, all of them will have their window behaving as floating ones. A quick > fix would be to use Mod+Shift+<space> on each of them, but they won't retain > that parameter after I close them. >
Do you expect others to apply your specific patches and configuration and try to reproduce the problem for you (assuming it is even a dwm bug at all)? Please learn to write a proper detailed bug report and use the vanilla upstream version (git or 6.6). I will not look into this one at least. -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
