GNUstep and EWMH
- From: Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer gmx de>
- To: wm-spec-list gnome org
- Subject: GNUstep and EWMH
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:35:23 -0000
When I send the following question to the xdg mailing list a few days
ago, I was pointed to this list. Now I expect, that the same people that
pointed me to here will be willing to answer in more detail. (At least
at GNUstep we would do so :-))
Please reply directly, as I don't want to subscribe yet another mailing
list.
Cheers
Fred
...
At the moment I am looking into better support for the window manager
standard and there a problem shows up. OpenStep has the concept of a
window having a style (e.g. with or without border decoration) and a
window level (normal, floating, modal panel, sub menu, main menu and so
on). I tried to match the later onto the EWMH window type. I found
various problems with this, which also did vary between different EWMH
window managers and different versions of them.
First the concept of a menu in EWMH seems to be different from the
OpenStep free floating menu, which should stay on top of other windows.
To work around this I maped the main menu to dock and the sub menus to
menu. As this had some side effects (on KDE 3.1) to the window
decoration, I had to switch that off with the KDE override atom.
Although this solution somehow works on most window managers, it is less
than optimal and a clear definition of the different window types and
what they should result in, could help me find a better correlation. Or
at least it would allow me to blame the window managers for not
following the standard.
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