Hi, On 16 June 2013 23:11, Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 16 Jun 2013 20:49, "Michael Stapelberg" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I really don’t get why xfce-notifyd is the only misbehaving program >>> here, all the others just work. >> >> Because that's the wrong way round. It's a valid hint to set since >> it's part of the EWMH spec, and WMs should support it. There's plenty >> of other applications setting this hint, were I to go and look. So I >> think i3 should just support it. If I have to patch that support in, > That’s not a good reason. Why can’t it just set _both_ like all the > other programs do?
That's a bit like saying: "Why do people have to choose different colour cars, can't they all just use unpainted ones?". I think more the point here is that the standard has laid down one way of setting these hints, and that the implication isn't necessary to enforce override-redirect---it's just that that's how most WMs will treat this property, because that's usually how WMs deal with windows they're never supposed to manage. At this point, it's easier for me to write the code than it is continue the conversation. :) -- Thomas Adam
