[xmonad] tweaking xmonad into a reparenting window manager

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 19:12:42 UTC 2021


It's not fundamental, it's just that it's rather more than a "tweak" — many
things assume the client window is directly a parent of the root, and would
need to be taught about frame windows.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 3:05 PM Platon Pronko <platon7pronko at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there some fundamental reason why Xmonad is non-reparenting?
>
> My current (naive) understanding is that Xmonad does not reparent the
> windows simply as a small optimization (why create a second window if you
> can live with one window just fine). If that's the case, then adding a
> tweak that allows Xmonad to do reparenting should be doable. However I
> understand that it will be non-trivial undertaking, so I wanted advice of
> more experienced developers before I sink in a lot of time to find out that
> this is fundamentally impossible for some reason.
>
> Best regards,
> Platon Pronko
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