[Xmonad] Docks and things

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 1 22:41:26 EDT 2007


xmonad:
> Is XMonad intended to respect _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK?  I note that
> when I start applications like kicker, gkrellm, etc., (which xprop
> says have _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK) they
> sort of get managed (xmonad gives them a suitable managed window,
> though often it's blank (because the application's drawn itself
> elsewhere)).  Shouldn't xmonad just ignore such client windows?

Hmm, perhaps. I'd have to read the spec. We haven't looked at this yet.
On the todo list.

-- Don


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