[xmonad] Tabbed.addTabs broken?

Andrea Rossato andrea.rossato at unibz.it
Mon Feb 11 14:31:12 EST 2008


On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:20:46PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>  I will repeat that the correct way to designate decoration windows is to 
>  attach a decoration property to them, both to answer questions of "is this a 
>  real window?" and to be able to recover if xmonad exits unexpectedly leaving 
>  its decoration windows around (otherwise restarting xmonad turns decoration 
>  windows into managed windows because it doesn't know any better).

decoration windows have the override_redirect bit set to true, and so
xmonad is not going to manage them on a restart.

a property could be a cleaner solution but I'm not so sure.

Thanks,
Andrea


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