provide config to make gsimplecal floating

[thkoch2001]

Hi,

I'm using the awesome wm and usually have the fullscreen layout selected. When starting gsimplecal it thus occupies the full screen. As I understand it's possible for an application to tell the wm that it would prefer to be displayed in floating mode? Could you make this a configuration item?

Thx, Thomas Koch

[dmedvinsky]

Sure, I'll see what I can do.

[dmedvinsky]

Can't find anything about floating mode hints in the EHWM specs. I'm still digging into this, but not sure this is possible.

Here is a solution for you for a while, or maybe forever, if it's not possible. :-) You should add this line in your awful.rules.rules object in your rc.lua:

-- Set Gsimplecal to the currently focused tag, as floating
{ rule = { class = "Gsimplecal" }, properties = { floating = true } },

Look here for the full example: http://git.sysphere.org/awesome-configs/tree/rc.lua#n486

[thkoch2001]

Hi,

I might have found how awesome decides whether it should float a client or not.

lib/awful/client.lua.in, function floating.get(c):

        if c.type ~= "normal"
            or c.fullscreen
            or c.maximized_vertical
            or c.maximized_horizontal
            or isfixed(c) then
            return true

the isfixed logic from the same file:

h = c.size_hints
    if h.min_width and h.max_width
        and h.max_height and h.min_height
        and h.min_width > 0 and h.max_width > 0
        and h.max_height > 0 and h.min_height > 0
        and h.min_width == h.max_width
        and h.min_height == h.max_height
        return true

So you could give gsimplecal any other _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE value then NORMAL or make the isfixed(c) function return true. (see http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#NORESIZE )

[dmedvinsky]

Hey Thomas,

I've actually been playing with it today in the morning, trying to set all kinds of hints and their combinations (actually, I tried everything I thought might do the trick from the GtkWindow documentation) and gtk_window_set_resizable worked for me.

The problem is, I'm currently using XMonad, and Awesome is not in the Arch Repositories, and building it by hand required installing to many deps, and I sort of gave up on testing it.

So if you could test the latest master with Awesome that would be great.

[thkoch2001]

Thank you. I tested it and awesome indeed opens the calendar in floating mode, if the window is set to be unresizable. You may mention this in the documentation as I've indicated in a comment to the commit.

[dmedvinsky]

Yeah, thanks, I will.