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c00kiemon5ter / monsterwm

tiny but monstrous tiling window manager
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Rox-filer: dialog windows #17

Closed ozar closed 11 years ago

ozar commented 11 years ago

When using rox-filer under monsterwm the main directory windows do tile as expected, but a lot of the related dialog windows tile as well when it seems that they should be floating windows instead. When using rox-filer in other tiling WMs such as Awesome and DWM, these same dialog windows do float rather than tile by default.

Is there a shortcut to set all those dialog windows to float, or does a separate rule need to be created for each dialog window that is misbehaving?

c00kiemon5ter commented 11 years ago

hi, (and sorry for the delay)

looking at Rox seems to only define _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG monsterwm disregards most of EWMH so it does not check for that (while dwm and awesomewm do).

it seems though, that most of the windows take the class Savebox (copy, link, rename, etc) so you may want to set a rule for that class to spawn the window in floating mode

{ "Savebox", -1, False, True },  /* all windows with 'Savebox' class will be floating on current desktop */
ozar commented 11 years ago

Thanks, cookie!

I had already made a rule for that category and it's working, but there are other windows still tiling that seem like they should float, so I was hoping there might be some other generic rule that would set more of them to float. I don't want to make too many custom rules so will use it 'as is'. Thanks again for your help...