Re: Review: FULLSCREEN_MONITORS Hint

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Mark Tiefenbruck wrote:
> About your proposal, I think you should let each window manager decide
> what to do with transient windows, though I'd expect most will do what
> you suggested. Also, I don't see any reason the property should be
> written by the window manager and communicated through client
> messages. The client can add the hint to its own window with fewer
> context switches.

A model where the WM maintains the property (when window is mapped) and 
the client has to ask to change it, allows the WM to modify the property 
without races - similar to how we handle _NET_WM_STATE.

Havoc