Don't be discouraged by the other replies. I have been caught off guard by a dmenu of my own use being a bit too subtle for me to notice, and a shadow would have made it more clear that a new object needs attention. Not sure why anyone would complain about a UI advancement that is both trivial and backed by years of research.
> On Jul 24, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Jan Christoph Ebersbach <jceb_AT_e-jc.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here are the patches to set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK for dwm's bar
> and dmenu. Would someone with commit rights apply them to master?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jan Christoph
>
>> On Wed 20-07-2016 07:05 +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> --
> 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
> <0001-Mark-barwin-type-as-dock_dwm.patch>
> <0001-Mark-window-type-as-dock_dmenu.patch>
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