Godot is not friendly with tiling window managers

[shackra]

I'm user of SpectrWM, a small dynamic tiling window manager for Xorg.

There are two issues:

1. all the Godot windows (the project list, the editor and the game preview) have exactly the same class and instance according to xprop | grep -E "^(WM_CLASS|_NET_WM_NAME|WM_NAME)", this makes me unable to change the tiling behavior according to each different window, i.e.: making the game preview window float over the rest of windows. And,
2. The elements of any windows do not accommodate to the window size upon startup, look: I have to float the window and then stack it again in order to get the elements of Godot's UI accommodate to the size of the window when stacked: Floating: re-stacked: After this, Godot is able to fit the GUI properly.

Hope this bug report makes sense. Having this fix before Godot hits version 1.0 is a good idea, so I better report this now.

[Marneus68]

I'll be reinstalling my i3-wm setup tonight so I can try this out on another tiling window manager. I'm all for dynamic tiling support.

[greescom]

I have exactly the same problem in the DWM tiling window manager.

The Godot windows are unresponsive until floated and re-stacked. The class & name fields are different in the 1.0 stable release but I still cannot auto float the preview game window for some reason.

Had a few crashes where the entire workspace became unresponsive due to window issues.

This bug makes it very uncomfortable to use Godot.

[shackra]

Me neither, I have set quirk[Godot:Godot] = FLOAT in the SpectrWM configuration file and nonetheless the window do not float. I have to do the same as you, float and re-stack, to get the UI properly drawn at the window dimensions.

The class and names should be different in Godot, the project list should have its own, so the editor and the same for the game preview.

greescom writes:

I have exactly the same problem in the DWM tiling window manager.

The Godot windows are unresponsive until floated and re-stacked. The class & name fields are different in the 1.0 stable release but I still cannot auto float the preview game window for some reason.

Had a few crashes where the entire workspace became unresponsive due to window issues.

This bug makes it very uncomfortable to use Godot.

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[shackra]

or annoy Juan and Ariel to fix what is not working for you.

Psss, @reduz and @punto- !

EDIT: In Awesome WM 3.5.6, running Godot 1.1, this bug don't exists.

[suptimal]

i have similair issues using bspwm + Godot 1.1beta1.

and godot has no instance or class set one window spawn.