Re: extended window manager hints

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> (Bah, I probably pressed the wrong key for the first reply.)
>
> On 2008-05-30, Jordan Sissel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW supported?
>
> It was supported the least time I tested such mostly useless
> feature, but it isn't enabled by default. Applications tend to
> abuse such features^1. You have to specifically enable it.
>

Ahh I see it now. I'm horrible at searching today.

The _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message has the option of indicating who is
making the request, a pager or a normal application. I suppose the
answer is probably 'no', but would you consider allowing requests from
pagers? I don't use a pager, but the application I'm writing acts like
a command-line pager.

If the answer is no, that's ok too, I'm just trying to adjust my expectations :)

-Jordan

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>
> ^1 Latest in Shitware(tm): Google Earth. It opens a top-level
> window for the photos etc. that it wants to show, doesn't
> mark it transient, and then closes the window when its main
> window gets hidden. Furthermore, if you manage to kludge its
> photo-windows into transients, or use it in floating mode,
> _the fuckwits who wrote that software draw custom decorations
> around those frames, within the main window of the shitware_.
> Please decide: use WM-managed windows, or just draw all your
> shit within the main window, do not mix them both.
>
> There aren't enough cluebats in the world to satisfy the
> demand.
>
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> Tuomo
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