[issue24946] Tkinter tests that fail on linux in tiling window manager

Florian Bruhin added the comment: At least with my WM, there is no concept of having floating windows when in tiling mode, so I don't think that would be possible. I also don't think there's a standard way to tell a window manager to not tile windows. What about opening a simple window with

[issue24946] Tkinter tests that fail on linux in tiling window manager

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[issue24946] Tkinter tests that fail on linux in tiling window manager

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I already added a workaround to pass these tests on my netbook (new windows are opened maximized on it). May be there is a way to make a window floating in tiled window manager in Tk. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24946] Tkinter tests that fail on linux in tiling window manager

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: Serhiy, Florian emailed this to me in response to my pydev post on Linux gui tests. I'll let you decide if you think anything needs to be done. from Florian FWIW, those tests seem to fail when using a tiling window manager (herbstluftwm):