Great, thanks for the feeback. I'll provide a patch this week. Jan Christoph
On Tue 19-07-2016 20:47 +0200, v4hn wrote: > 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 -- 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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