Where's the patch?
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:43:26PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just stumbled upon the compositor compton and came across this wiki
> page that describes that shadows don't work properly in combination with
> dwm and dmenu:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton#dwm_.26_dmenu The reason
> for this is that _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE and _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP
> aren't set for the bar/menu that is drawn.
>
> The closest I could get in my research was
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/7688. dwm implements
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE for client windows.
>
> Is there a specific reason for not implementing _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE for
> dwm and dmenu other than that nobody did it so far? I think it's worth
> the issue because a compositor greatly improves window tearing and it
> would make the tools more compatible to the expected behavior.
>
> Btw, here is another issue related to compositors that might be worth
> considering again: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1505/26735.html
>
> Jan Christoph
Received on Tue Jul 19 2016 - 20:47:31 CEST