Where's the patch? On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:43:26PM +0200, Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote: > 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
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
