Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.10.2009, 11:59 -0600 schrieb Justin Bogner:
Joachim Breitner writes:
I didn’t try it, because at the moment I don’t have a second screen, but from what I read, I’m unsure if it’s a good idea.
Not having windows that are not on the current workspace show up in window lists is a bad idea, as more than just a workspace switcher relies on that (window lists, and even unrelated tools like my arbtt, need to have all windows in _NET_CLIENT_LIST).
(but maybe I’m misunderstanding your patch)
I don't mess with _NET_CLIENT_LIST, it still reports all windows.
If you have two monitors, and they're pointing at workspaces 1 and 2, with 1 being active and 2 merely visible, my patch reports the windows on 1 as belonging to workspace 1 (the active workspace) and the windows on 2 as belonging to workspace 2.
The previous behaviour had all visible windows (those from both 1 and 2) reported as being on workspace 1, so that they'd all be on the active workspace (since EWMH has no concept of two workspaces being visible at once)
I vaguely remember fighting with this issue when writing the EWMH module. I think I had a reason for choosing this variant, but I don’t remember it any more. Given that I don’t use multiple screens at the moment, I won’t object this patch and leave the discussions to those who do have several monitors. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org