On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0400, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > I should have said in my original report that the MODKEY+shift+space > solution is the way I dealt with these problems; I had suspected that > the isfloating rule is being ignored in such cases, but when we ran > 5.8.2 it worked just fine; perhaps you have the same bug I do. Try > the latest hg tip. > > Peter >
Before my previous post I tested with hg tip and didn't hit your bug. Then I realized that hg tip includes the change that fixed it for you, so now I've retested with one before hg tip and I'm still not getting your bug. I was able to open a terminal, then open openoffice (which goes floating fullscreen, hiding the terminal), focus the terminal using MODKEY+j (still hidden behind openoffice), and successfully run a command in the terminal. From my understanding of your report, you were not able to do this. It looks like we just have the auto-floating in common, which at least has a reasonable explanation for why dwm is doing it (whether or not it should is a different can of worms). The focus problem could very well be specific to certain compiler versions. gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1)
