On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 at 23:49:45 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Hello, > > Since this is my first time here I'd like to introduce myself: I have > been a dedicated Window Maker user for a very long time. I guess it's > close to 20 years now. Like many others I was looking for a more > beautiful window manager back in the 1990s, but got frustrating > whenever they crashed. The window manager was as close to a session > manager as we got, and a crash would mean a lost session. Then Window > Maker showed up. Both beautiful and stable. I've never looked back. > > But last week I got a new laptop and fealt the need for something > new. In particular a "panel" application which could collect all the > useful freedesktop applets. Yes, I know about wmsystemtray. That > didn't work so good for me since the applet icons end up really tiny > on a 2560x1440 14" screen. So I ended up with the LXDE lxpanel. It > does make the desktop look like it was designed by Frankenstein, but > you cannot always get everything ;) > > Now finally, to the real issue: The panel obscured fullscreen windows. > This is particularily annoying while watching movies. After a failing > to find a setting for that, I started looking at the lxpanel source. > And found that it looked mostly sane. No issues there. So I went on > to the Window Maker source, and quickly found the change that made > this happen. The fullscreen stacking level was removed in an attempt > to solve the issue of fullscreen windows being stacked above focused > windows: http://lists.windowmaker.org/dev//msg05863.html > > This made fullscreen windows stack like normal windows, which implies > *below* the dock/panel.... I see that this bug has come up before: > http://lists.windowmaker.org/dev/msg07312.html > > This is a revert of the patches introducing the problem, and a feeble > attempt on solving the unfocused fullscreen issue. I'm a bit unsure > about the latter.
Right, I don't think we should have removed the fullscreen level back then and now you spotted that this is against the specs. I applied both patches, but the second one where you create an exception to allow other windows on top of a fullscreen window seems like trying to solve the wrong problem --- if you have a fullscreen window you better not mess with other windows, and if you really want to do that you should first make sure to not have a fullscreen window blocking the screen. I applied your patch anyway. It would be nice to hear from Amadeusz what he thinks about this behavior. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
