Re: [Maybe OT]: Sawfish 'strange' behaviours

[Fabio Rotondo <mlists rotondo it>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > If I don't set the WM_CLASS all windows of the app are created the same
> > size(which looks real ugly if the main window is maximised and you pop
> > up a one line dialog which also maximises itself), and they don't stack
> > properly on the panel. 
and that's what is happening to my app under Sawfish, while all other WM 
I have tested
(enlightenment, windowmaker, aewm, amiwm ... ) work.

> No, it's a legitimate issue. The problem is that what the ICCCM
> specifies really isn't useful, so lots of window managers have this
> "identify windows by class/role" feature that works best if apps do
> something nonstandard. But not all window managers do that. 
But, exactly, what is the problem in doing something not standard?

> And so it's just a totally unspecified mess and you can't do anything
> that will really work reliably.
so, conforming to the 'standard' really doesn't help that much. Right? ;-)

> IMO the correct solution is to have the window manager ignore the
> class/name for the most part.
maybe you are right, but I cannot expect that people will turn off some 
features just because
they are not standard. I can have a preference option in my own app like 
"set WM_CLASS hints"
or something to do dirty things, but I cannot expect that people change 
their own WM prefs just to
have my app working.

After all these readings, I have come out with this code (that, 
accidently, seems to work under Sawfish :-):

(main window)
gtk_window_set_wmclass      ( GTK_WINDOW ( mb->win ), "MainWin", 
"MyAppClass" );

(my mebu window)
gtk_window_set_wmclass      ( GTK_WINDOW ( mb->win ), "MenuWin", 
"MyAppClass" );

(child windows)
gtk_window_set_wmclass      ( GTK_WINDOW ( mb->win ), "ChildWin", 
"MyAppClass" );

Now Sawfish does not mess things up when I maximize the main window and 
then add some child
windows.
Is this line of code something I should put under a prefs option? Is it 
so not standard?

Ciao,

 Fabio