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c00kiemon5ter / monsterwm

tiny but monstrous tiling window manager
https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/monsterwm
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Toggle Panel doesn't work on an empty desktop #8

Closed firecat53 closed 12 years ago

firecat53 commented 12 years ago

The toggle panel shortcut only seems to work when there is at least one window on the desktop. Minor issue!

Thanks, Scott

c00kiemon5ter commented 12 years ago

hey,

yeah, that's expected, monsterwm doesn't handle the panel itself, like other windows. Hidding the panel works by giving the windows the space that the panel uses, so the windows go on top of the panel, and thus the panel is hidden.

So, as monsterwm cannot control the panel window (that's because panels either set the override_redirect flag, or start before the wm) I cannot hide the panel when there is no other window. dwm on the other hand, draws the panel itself, and thus can control it, and hide it when no window is on the screen.

This is also mentioned on the README file.

firecat53 commented 12 years ago

Ooops...totally missed that!! Sorry to waste your time...thanks for the explanation, though!

Scott

c00kiemon5ter commented 12 years ago

no problem ;) don't hesitate to ask anything