On 10 October 2011 20:53, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > On 10/10/2011, Matthew Phillips <ma...@cpan.org> wrote: >> I stumbled on an odd dwm X11 bug yesterday. Resize any window (a terminal >> works) to 4-5 times the width of your screens resolution, and at some point >> the floating superwide window will appear on all workspaces, but becomes >> unselectable. > > I think the offending code is line 1600 in dwm.c. Instead of unmapping > hidden windows, dwm simply moves them two screen widths to the right. > Presumably here it reaches some kind of limit and X refuses to allow > its right edge to be so far to the right, so it gets stuck and covers > the tags on which it is meant to be hidden.
Unmapping proved to be a bit slower, which is why I used the window moving trick. I guess the best is to move the windows into negative x land to have a proper fix. Cheers, Anselm
