Re: [dev] Re: dwm puzzle [fixed; with blame]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:20:35PM -0400, TJ Robotham wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:23:18PM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:35:10PM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote:
> > > But now, after the upgrade, both firefox and open office behave like
> > > elitists: not only do they not tile in tile mode (they sit on top) they
> > > don't allow me to do focusstack either to flip to other things under the
> > > stack. Hence, MODKEY t, m, and the j and k don't work. I can make
> > > firefox behave if I hit F11 (oddly enough), but nothing I can do can get
> > > open office to behave.
> > >
> > > I have no Rules in my Rules section of config.h and I verified that this
> > > is the same even with a vanilla config.def.h as my config.h. Suggestions?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > In any case, that fixes the bug and now openoffice and firefox behave.
> >
> > Thoughts? Peter
> >
>
> I don't have any comments on the focus problems, but I find that openoffice
> actually ignores having isfloating set to false in my rules. I'm guessing that
> its insistence on not tiling is a side-effect of how manage() handles windows
> initialized with fullscreen dimensions: by making them floating, no-border
> clients AFTER calling applyrules(). I just deal with this by using
> MODKEY+shift+space to toggle isfloating on the client.
>

I should have said in my original report that the MODKEY+shift+space
solution is the way I dealt with these problems; I had suspected that
the isfloating rule is being ignored in such cases, but when we ran
5.8.2 it worked just fine; perhaps you have the same bug I do. Try
the latest hg tip.

Peter
Received on Sat Sep 11 2010 - 22:44:12 CEST