Re: [dev] [wmii] Chromium always starts as a floating window

On 03/17/2011 12:54 PM, Aaron Lindsay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using wmii under Arch, and have found that whenever I start
> Chromium (version 10.0.648.133) (whether by Mod-p or by command line)
> it is spawned as a floating window in wmii. I have installed both the
> default from the Arch package repository as well as the latest version
> from mercurial, and double- and triple-checked that none of my tag
> rules could be setting it to be a floating window. Every other
> application starts normally as a stacked window. I cannot find a way
> to explicitly set a window as non-floating via tag rules (i.e., the
> inverse of ~). I assume this is by design because windows should start
> as non-floating by default.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem, or have any insight into it?
>
> Some info about my setup (let me know if more would be helpful to
> diagnose the problem):
> $ wmiir read /rules
> /.*/ -> sel
> $ wmii -v
> wmii-3.9.2, ©2010 Kris Maglione
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Aaron
>
I had the same problem until I set chrome/chromium to start explicitly
in stacking mode. I have my wmiirc with "/chrome/ force-tags=+web" in it
to force chrome to be stacking on web, so try modifying that.

-Steve

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