Hey,
I've recently been looking into dwm's window manager hints support.
I've just finished looking through all the ICCCM properties (next up
EWMH), and have found only one which dwm ought to support, but
doesn't: the WM_NORMAL_HINTS USPosition and USSize fields.
Basically these two fields state
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> Basically these two fields state that the client's geometry has been
> chosen specifically by the user, and the window manager ought to
> respect that. But we don't, we just tile the window anyway. The
> traditional X utilities all set th
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 11:37:55PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> > Basically these two fields state that the client's geometry has been
> > chosen specifically by the user, and the window manager ought to
> > respect that. But we don't, we
Honestly, I'm not sure this hint should be respected, at least not
without some serious consideration.
This would lead to a concept of layers that is entirely binary (either
on the 'lower' tiled layer or above
it in the specified size) and there's already a way to get this to
work - set a class and
Hey,
On 9 August 2011 04:37, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> This might be the historical reason these exist, but they were
> conceived before the advent of modern tiling window managers, and imo
> clients shouldn't be managing themselves anyway.
I think the window manager should do whatever the user asks
Of course, Connor's right. Transient windows are always floated.
However, I think this is also the expected behavior and DWM's handling
of these two cases is as expected. I'm simply stating that the current
way that DWM handles windows works fine for most users without us
handling yet another hint.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> I think the window manager should do whatever the user asks.
Correct. And if I want my windows managed in a specific way, I need
to ask the window manager.
> Someone on IRC said
> they use -geom and have to special-case every program fo
Since there's a few opinions on this, how about we make a dwm "focus"
page? The NetActiveWindow hint is not one of the better ideas in the
history of X11, it really got my goat when windows started stealing
focus while I'm trying to type elsewhere.
Rob
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On 9 August 2011 20:41, Rob wrote:
> Since there's a few opinions on this, how about we make a dwm "focus"
> page? The NetActiveWindow hint is not one of the better ideas in the
> history of X11, it really got my goat when windows started stealing
> focus while I'm trying to type elsewhere.
I was
