Re: MWM hints

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > While digging through the archives for something else, I noticed this
> > thread which IIRC we never did anything about:
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2001-December/msg00044.html
> > 
> > I suspect WMs vary wildly in what they do with MWM hints right now.
> 
> In what way is that related to the EWMH spec?  Why should we care?

Well, right now the MWM hints are the official way to turn off
decorations, and all WMs seem to honor that part. So we should
document that if it's the official mechanism.

If the rest of the MWM hints should be ignored, we should perhaps
document that too.

> > We really need some kind of test suite for WMs, much like "vttest" for
> > terminals. :-/
> 
> You have my full (mental) support for writing one ;-)

Come on! You know you want to write it!

Havoc