On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:39:45PM -0400, TJ Robotham wrote: > 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) >
Hmm. I think this is what is happening to me. For instance, it is fixed if I do MODKEY+space to make it not a floater. So, on the can of worms, it shouldn't auto-float; and it used to not auto-float. Unless I'm misunderstaanding something. -p
