Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

"Mark Tiefenbruck" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > Also, I don't see any reason the property should be
> > written by the window manager and communicated through client
> > messages. The client can add the hint to its own window with fewer
> > context switches.
> >
>
> A model where the WM maintains the property (when window is mapped) and
> the client has to ask to change it, allows the WM to modify the property
> without races - similar to how we handle _NET_WM_STATE.

Part of my assumption was that the WM doesn't need to modify this
property at all. I can't think of a reason why it would, since this is
purely a request from the client for specific treatment.

  Mark
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