Re: [i3] Notifyd support
- From: Thomas Adam <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager" <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:20:26 +0100
Hi,
On 16 June 2013 23:11, Michael Stapelberg <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Adam <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 16 Jun 2013 20:49, "Michael Stapelberg" <michael@xxxxxxxx> 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
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