On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 05:11:49PM -0300, Lucas de Sena wrote:
> When embedded into another window, dmenu will fail with the BadMatch
> error if that window have not the same colormap/depth/visual as the
> root window.
> 
> That happens because dmenu inherits the colormap/depth/visual from
> its parent, but draws on a pixmap created based on the root window
> using a GC created for the root window (see drw.c).  A BadMatch will
> occur when copying the content of the pixmap into dmenu's window.
> 
> A solution is to create dmenu's window inside root and then reparent
> it if embeded.
> 
> See this mail[1] on po...@openbsd.org mailing list for context.
> 
> [1]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=168072150814664&w=2
> ---
>  dmenu.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
> index 4e7df12..62f1089 100644
> --- a/dmenu.c
> +++ b/dmenu.c
> @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ setup(void)
>       swa.override_redirect = True;
>       swa.background_pixel = scheme[SchemeNorm][ColBg].pixel;
>       swa.event_mask = ExposureMask | KeyPressMask | VisibilityChangeMask;
> -     win = XCreateWindow(dpy, parentwin, x, y, mw, mh, 0,
> +     win = XCreateWindow(dpy, root, x, y, mw, mh, 0,
>                           CopyFromParent, CopyFromParent, CopyFromParent,
>                           CWOverrideRedirect | CWBackPixel | CWEventMask, 
> &swa);
>       XSetClassHint(dpy, win, &ch);
> @@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ setup(void)
>  
>       XMapRaised(dpy, win);
>       if (embed) {
> +             XReparentWindow(dpy, win, parentwin, x, y);
>               XSelectInput(dpy, parentwin, FocusChangeMask | 
> SubstructureNotifyMask);
>               if (XQueryTree(dpy, parentwin, &dw, &w, &dws, &du) && dws) {
>                       for (i = 0; i < du && dws[i] != win; ++i)
> -- 
> 2.40.0
> 
> 

Hi,

Applied and pushed to the repo, thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Hiltjo

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