On 24 June 2016 at 00:10, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > EWMH seems to be supposed to make it so that areas of the screen are > /not/ covered by windows, which is something I don't want. I'm not sure
No. It's a specification which defines the behaviours of windows. One of those aspects is BaseStruts which gives hints to the window manager about where the boundaries of a screen happen to be, and as such that is often interpreted to reserve those areas from having windows placed on them. > I'm using MinOverlapPercentPlacement, after trying MinOverlapPlacement. > Both seem to give pretty much the same results. That's because it won't do what you want without proposed changes from me. I'll get round to it at some point. -- Thomas Adam