Re: [wmii] More newbie strangeness -- no window decorations?

Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:49:08AM +0200, Stefan Tibus wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
>>
>>> wmii treats applications
>>> which windows request the size of the display as fullscreen
>>> apps, which are always floating.
>>>
>> Does this mean that a managed application with a single window in
>> the corresponding view will be floating the next time when it
>> stores the size (fullscreen, as it was the only window) on quit
>> and requests that one again on start-up?
>>
>
> If a window requests exactly screen size, it will be floating
> and cover the screen (this has to be done to support
> fullscreen-windows like mplayer, xpdf -fullscreen etc.).
>
   
    This doesn't seem like the correct behavior. ion3 doesn't seem to
have any problems distinguishing between the case when an application
wants the full screen and when it asks for a window the size of a full
screen (in which case it ignores it).

>> btw. is there some place explaining what makes windows floating?
>>
>
> No, but it's simple:
>
> A new window will be floating,
> - if it inherits the current tag AND the floating layer is focused
> OR
> - if an associated ~-rule matches the windows class:instance or name
> OR
> - if it has set the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint, it inherits the
> tag of the main window and will be floating
>
    But this seems to contradict what you just said above.

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