Re: [dwm] Greyish blobs

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:47:16 +0200

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:29:10PM +0200, Sebastian Goll wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:23:22 +0200
> "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
>
> > Yea, that might be the reason. dwm assumes that any window which
> > performs a MapRequest is ready being mapped (which is ICCCM
> > compliant) - however, there might be windows which request being
> > mapped, but which aren't viewable, - that's somewhat odd and I'd
> > recommend Wolfram Research to use pixmaps instead of such
> > windows, or windows which are created on demand instead...
>
> Is there any chance of seeing a patch fixing this problem in dwm for now
> (similar perhaps to the fix in xmonad and not necessarily mainstream)? I
> fear that Wolfram Research won't provide a fix for their software, until
> at least the next release; not that many people that use Mathematica use
> dwm as well ...

I will have a patch available tomorrow.

Regards,

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