[i3] EWMH for panels

  • From: Alexander Corvinus <acrvns@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:21:17 +0300

from i3 User’s Guide:

Regardless of which application you use to display the status line, you want
to make sure that it registers as a dock window using EWMH hints. i3 will
position the window either at the top or at the bottom of the screen,
depending on which hint the application sets.

Can you please elaborate, which hints need to be set? Can they be set
in something like devilspie? I feel it will remain a relevant question
for quite some time. Even dzen2's stable release currently can't set
them on its own, so panel overlaps windows or other content.

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