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chwso doesn't appear to work #44

Closed JonathanReeve closed 8 years ago

JonathanReeve commented 8 years ago

I noticed this while trying to fix focus.sh in contrib. Focus.sh uses wtf and chwso to focus a window, but only wtf is working, so the window becomes focused, but is still behind other windows. Running chwso manually given a wid does nothing, and returns nothing.

Tested on Arch Linux running GNOME.

lwilletts commented 8 years ago

wmutils isn't EWMH compliant. Don't expect it to work within an environment such as GNOME or i3 that implements EWMH, and as far as I understand, EWMH can vary heavily in implementation and is beyond the scope of this project.

z3bra commented 8 years ago

wmutils's goal is to provide a full environment for someone to build their own way to manage X windows. The fact it can be used to extend existing window managers is a side effect. In this special case, there are chances that wmutils and mutter (if that's still Gnome's WM), are in conflict, both trying to take control over windows, which might be why wmutils appears to not work properly.

In order to "extend" and existing EWMH compliant window manager, I'd suggest using wmctrl instead. Whose purpose is to talk directly to the WM, rather than trying to bypass it.