[xmonad] Re: Issue 344 in xmonad: xmonad does not manage docks and other windows that have been 'doIgnored'

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Updates:
	Summary: xmonad does not manage docks and other windows that have  
been 'doIgnored'
	Status: Accepted
	Labels: Priority-Low Type-Defect

Comment #1 on issue 344 by SpencerJanssen: xmonad does not manage docks and  
other windows that have been 'doIgnored'
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=344

This has been an issue waiting to happen for quite some time now.  Docks are
currently "managed" by doIgnore, which means that xmonad is completely  
unaware of the
windows.  This has several symptoms:

  * xmonad doesn't maintain a proper stacking order of these windows,  
meaning that we
can't guarantee where dock, desktop and regular client windows stack in  
relation to
each other
  * it is difficult to give keyboard focus to docks and the like
  * the issue in the original report, not all clients are listed in the  
stacking
window prop

I've been considering adding a component to xmonad that acts as an  
intermediary
between xmonad's high level domain (StackSet and layout algorithms) and X.   
This
component would be able to manage these windows that don't go in StackSet.

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