[xmonad] [patch] EwmhDesktops: make setActiveWindow set _NET_WM_STATE for gtk-3.4

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 00:49:00 CET 2012


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Jens Petersen
<juhp at community.haskell.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not an expert on EWMH but this change seems to be necessary for coming
> GTK 3.4, when using themes like Adwaita, that now supports
> @theme_unfocused_fg_color
> which causes unfocused application's UI to be rendered unfocused in addition
> to the normal unfocused window manager decoration.  Current
> desktopConfig triggers
> this causing all Gtk3 apps to be rendered as unfocused.
>
> Anyway I would appreciate review of this patch and feedback: perhaps
> there is a better
> more correct fix?  I am planning to apply a patch for this shortly to
> Fedora 17 xmonad-contrib,
> otherwise GTK apps in gnomeConfig etc look terrible.  There are more
> technical details in
> the changelog.  I haven't found any other window manager that triggers
> this issue yet.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

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