On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:20:00PM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote: > On 9/6/06, Anthony Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Apologies if I'm annoying but I made sure I'm running dwm-1.4 and I > >still see that the z-ordering is not preserved (for overlapping windows > >in float mode). The z ordering is lost when changing from one tag to > >another and back. > > Actually, 1.4 does preserve z-ordering when switching between tags > (which was, reading the code, to be expected). > What is doesn't do (and quite likely shouldn't either, considering the > combinatorial explosion that would give) is remember where the focus > was. When the selected client leaves the view (for instance when > switching to a tagview that the selected client isn't part of), dwm > focuses and raises the first client in the list that is part the new > view. Hence, the "last started" client will be topmost. > You'll notice however that for all the other clients, z-ordering _is_ > preserved. Since remembering where the focus last was for all possible > combinations of tagviews is not very feasible, I think this is > something we'll just have to accept... > > Greetings, Sander. >
The behaviour for the latest changeset (442) is, as I described before, basically they way I would expect (i.e. like) things to behave. I have now also verified that z-ordering for clients with a certain tag is also preserved after doing a view-all and switching back to viewing a single tag. The only slight problem remaining is the mod-tab behaviour. However this is only a minor irritant. The reason I like to have the z-order preservation is for working with floating clients that overlap. This happens for example when I work with an editor in combination with a graphing programme. It is no good to have plot windows managed in tiled mode as they should be of a certain size and shape to make the graphics readable. At the same time they may overlap with the editor and loosing the z-ordering when temporarily switching to xterms with a different tag becomes annoying after a while. In any case, thanks again for all the rapid responses to my inquiries! cheers, Anthony
