Hi, I just stumbled upon the compositor compton and came across this wiki page that describes that shadows don't work properly in combination with dwm and dmenu: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton#dwm_.26_dmenu The reason for this is that _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE and _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP aren't set for the bar/menu that is drawn.
The closest I could get in my research was http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless/7688. dwm implements _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE for client windows. Is there a specific reason for not implementing _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE for dwm and dmenu other than that nobody did it so far? I think it's worth the issue because a compositor greatly improves window tearing and it would make the tools more compatible to the expected behavior. Btw, here is another issue related to compositors that might be worth considering again: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1505/26735.html Jan Christoph -- Jan Christoph Ebersbach I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
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