Great, thanks for the feeback. I'll provide a patch this week.
Jan Christoph
On Tue 19-07-2016 20:47 +0200, v4hn wrote:
> 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
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Jan Christoph Ebersbach
I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes
from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes
from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
Received on Wed Jul 20 2016 - 07:05:51 CEST