Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

[Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov iki fi>]

On 2007-10-04, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
>  I agree here. AUXILIARY sounds like A_SPECIAL_HACK. I think that ideally all 
> such effects should be in the CM, but in reality I would be fine with having 
> this VISUAL_EFFECT.

I think it is simplest, cleanest, and most compatible for a compositing 
manager to _ignore_ override_redirect windows, just like the window 
manager does, _unless_ it has further information to the contrary. That
is, it should only mess with their presentation if something like a
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE attribute has been set to indicate that the window
is really a menu or something else that the application wants the rest 
of the world to know about and mess with. 

(I also think that menus should actually be managed by the window 
manager or fit within their parent window to avoid grabbing all 
input. That doesn't really leave many cases of override-redirects 
that the compositing manager should mess with.)

-- 
Tuomo