Re: [dwm] inherit floating

2008/1/24, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> What do you think about make dwm inherit the floating attribute?
>
> if we are working on a floating window we usually want that all the
> windows opened from a floating window be floating.
>
> I dont know if it's possible to know the "parent" window for a client,
> but we can abstract the concept just saying that the new window will
> inherit the floating attribute, so if we focus a floating client and
> open a new window, the new one will be floating too.
>
> --pancake
>
>

I don't know without having a deeper look to what you are proposing,
but X11 doesn't let you know who (or what process, or what window, or
what) opened a new window. It just appears and you can't know where it
comes from.

hth,

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