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8 years ago I think we can find a better solution. Please let me explain.
The openbox "show desktop" action keeps visible only the desktop window, the
dock windows and splash windows (see
http://git.icculus.org/?p=dana/openbox.git;a=blob;f=openbox/client.c;h=c97abd5ac
184d93428f69a40be7ee64b23dfe20f;hb=HEAD#l2806 ).
So to keep tint2 visible on show desktop, *we have to set the window type to
either dock or splash*.
The layer should remain what the user specifies (bottom, normal or top).
Setting _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE and _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW at the same time does not
make any sense to me. The standard does not suggest that they should be set at
the same time:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/ar01s09.html#STACKINGORDER
However there is one more thing that is affected by the panel_dock option,
whether the window is focusable:
// Unfocusable
XWMHints wmhints;
if (panel_dock) {
wmhints.icon_window = wmhints.window_group = p->main_win;
wmhints.flags = StateHint | IconWindowHint;
wmhints.initial_state = WithdrawnState;
}
else {
wmhints.flags = InputHint;
wmhints.input = False;
}
XSetWMHints(server.dsp, p->main_win, &wmhints);
To summarize, we have to solve the following problems:
* tint2 should remain visible on "show desktop".
* tint2 should not have a border in openbox (although tint2 is always
indicating to the window manager that it should NOT be decorated, so IMHO it is
openbox's fault that it decides to draw a border; xfwm for instance does not).
* tint2 should be able to stack properly below/above other windows with
"panel_layer = normal" (issue 455).
We have the following options:
* Set the window state to dock, normal or splash. Whether it is set to dock or
not should follow the panel_dock option in the config file (as this is what the
user expects).
* Enable/disable focusability.
* Set the layer to whatever the user indicated in the config file with
panel_layer.
The changes in r677 break the third case (issue 455) for me in both openbox and
xfwm. They also force the dock even if the user disables it.
Instead I propose the following:
// Dock
long val = panel_dock ? server.atom._NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK : server.atom._NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH;
XChangeProperty (server.dsp, p->main_win, server.atom._NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE, XA_ATOM, 32, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) &val, 1);
val = ALLDESKTOP;
XChangeProperty (server.dsp, p->main_win, server.atom._NET_WM_DESKTOP, XA_CARDINAL, 32, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) &val, 1);
Atom state[4];
state[0] = server.atom._NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER;
state[1] = server.atom._NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR;
state[2] = server.atom._NET_WM_STATE_STICKY;
state[3] = panel_layer == BOTTOM_LAYER ? server.atom._NET_WM_STATE_BELOW : server.atom._NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE;
int nb_atoms = panel_layer == NORMAL_LAYER ? 3 : 4;
XChangeProperty (server.dsp, p->main_win, server.atom._NET_WM_STATE, XA_ATOM, 32, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) state, nb_atoms);
// Unfocusable
XWMHints wmhints;
wmhints.icon_window = wmhints.window_group = p->main_win;
wmhints.flags = StateHint | IconWindowHint;
wmhints.initial_state = WithdrawnState;
wmhints.flags = InputHint;
wmhints.input = False;
XSetWMHints(server.dsp, p->main_win, &wmhints);
I tested it in both openbox and xfwm, with compton, in all the 6 possible
configurations of panel_dock and panel_layer. All of the 3 problems above are
solved.
What do you think?
Do you know by any chance why the XWMHints were set like that before?Original comment by mrovi9...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2015 at 10:40
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
goo...@craigoakes.comon 31 Jan 2015 at 4:33