Re: resizing with gravity

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Dan Winship wrote:
> I spent the weekend communing with the ICCCM and the EWMH and will be
> sending a bunch of messages...
>
> My first issue is with window gravity. The EWMH says:
...
> So, I recommend that that section of the EWMH be gutted and rewritten
> (I'll provide text if there is consensus that this is correct, though I
> haven't yet re-figured-out the parts about compensating for
> border_width), with a note pointing out that (a) a previous version of
> the spec recommended the wrong behavior, and (b) pre-EWMH window
> managers have differed in how they interpreted this anyway, and so
> therefore Clients SHOULD always include x and y coordinates in
> ConfigureRequests and _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW requests for windows with
> non-NorthWest, non-Static gravity, to ensure that they get the behavior
> they want.

I read the icccm again on the weekend. I'd agree with all the above.

There is also _NET_WM_STRUT that should probably be added to the screen
area placement constraints too.