[xmonad] announce: XMonad.Util.WindowProperties

[gwern0 at gmail.com]

On 2008.03.25 20:34:57 -0400, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> scribbled 0.5K characters:
>
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 20:08 , gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 2008.03.23 00:15:09 -0400, Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>
>> scribbled 1.8K characters:
>>> xmonad shouldn't be altering these properties -- have you seen the flags
>>> for
>>> urxvt and xterm to set the class and resource name?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Spencer Janssen
>>
>> Why shouldn't it?
>
> Almost arbitrary properties, sure.  Changing WM_NAME / WM_CLASS /
> WM_WINDOW_ROLE violates the ICCCM.
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com

Oh. I misunderstood Spencer then - I thought he was saying XMonad shouldn't be altering any properties, not that there were standards-related reasons XMonad shouldn't be alternating two specific properties.

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