Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 05:16:57PM +0200, JUNG, Christian wrote: >> Hello, >> >> is it possible to limit the movement of a window to the area defined by >> EWMHBaseStrut? > > The Move command honours the EWMH Working Area by default when used > NON-interactively, but for interactive moves, no. You're free to move it > anywhere. > > I toyed with the idea of having wall-boundaries where windows couldn't be > moved, but due to the way one can configure their DesktopSize, and flip > between pages when resizing/moving windows, etc., soon came to the > realisation it becomes impossible to give a realistic configuration. > > Therefore, you won't ever get hard-walled areas honouring the EWMH Working > Area for interactive window moves. > > As for your current problem, just use Layers, perhaps? > > -- Thomas Adam > >
If I would have a requirement to forbid windows to be moved beyond a thought border, I would try to write some code, which becomes active as soon as the user stops manually moving the window. This code would move the window back then. Sounds dirty, I know, but why not? :-) Michael
