Re: swallow WM dock apps

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch home com>]

> From: Adrian Hosey <ahosey@snowcrash.kiva.net>
> 
> 
>: > > HAS ANYBODY EVER GOT THE PANEL TO SWALLOW ANYTHING AT ALL???????????????
>: > 
>: > Yes, I have.  It's been remarkably good.  Try using like oclock or
>: > something and see if you can swallow a running app.
>: 
>: I can't speak for the more standard apps like oclock, but I can say that
>: I've tried several times unsuccessfully to get the panel to swallow several
>: WM dock apps, e.g., wmSpaceWeather, wmWeather, wmitime, wminet, wmglobe,
>: wmy2k, wmsysmon, etc.
> 
> A window manager doesn't have to let its windows be reparented. It
> might be that wmaker will allow reparenting of regular apps but not
> dock apps. Several months ago you used to get the exact same behavior
> when trying to swallow _any_ app, before they did the GNOME
> compliance. I think you'll need to bring this up on the wmaker list.

Sorry.  I probably should have mentioned that the WM I'm running is
Enlightenment, and as someone has pointed out to me (I wasn't aware)
the "swallow app" feature doesn't yet work under enlightenment.

--Mark