Gkrellm and the openbox window manager

Folks,

In trying to get Gkrellm to play nicely with openbox 3.995 (latest
pre-release) and fbpanel, I found that no built-in Gkrellm setting would
make Gkrellm vanish from the taskbar. Even testing it against Xfce's
task bar with openbox didn't do the trick. But, when using Gkrellm with
two other window managers (Xfce 4.4 and Fluxbox), Gkrellm was very
obedient in not showing up on the task bar when so configured using the
GUI. 

The folks at openbox tried to sort this out for me and sent me the
following reply. Those of you far more clever than I am regarding coding
and standards may know what this means...(in other words, I'm just the
messenger. Don't shoot me!  ;-)  )

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In winops-x11.c, they make this XSendEvent with the wrong mask. It
should be as it is below:

XSendEvent(GDK_DISPLAY(), GDK_ROOT_WINDOW(),
                   False,
SubstructureNotifyMask|SubstructureRedirectMask, &xev);

as per
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#id2453413

They use only SubstructureNotifyMask.


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Now, don't ask me what this change would do when Gkrellm is run with WMs
where the keep-me-off-the-task-bar function already works as advertised!
But I will say that when I edited winops-x11.c to make the change they
recommended, then recompiled and installed Gkrellm, all is now right
with the world...

With best regards,

Pete
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