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Set of window manipulation tools
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DWM support #61

Closed paperbenni closed 4 years ago

paperbenni commented 4 years ago

I'm on dwm and a lot of stuff doesnt work. Selecting and listing windows works fine, but focusing and moving them with wmutils doesnt do anything. No error messages, just nothing. It would be really awesome if this project would support dwm at some point.

dcat commented 4 years ago

that’s not how it works.

if anything, dwm would have to start supporting wmutils, though i don’t see why they would.

z3bra commented 4 years ago

dwm (just like any other WM) will ask the X server to redirect all configure requests onto it. So when you call wmv or chwb (or whatever wmutils tool), you're effectively asking dwm to do it for you.

I took a brief look at dwm.c, and it will only honor configure requests for windows that are in floating mode. In "normal" mode, these requests are simply ignored.

If you want wmutils to handle windows for you, then don't run a WM, or run one that will transparently forward ALL configure requests to the X server. Such WM include cwm0, swm1 or glazier2.