Re: [xmonad] override_redirect [was Re: xmonad problem or application stealing keys?]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 16:55, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:17:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 05:08, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

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If I start the application with command line parameters that will make it try to get fullscreen mode, then:

This is symptomatic of a window that is not being managed, i.e. it uses override_redirect.

Is using override_redirect a bug, a bad thing or a feature?

Depends on what you're doing. Environments such as CDE don't support the newer EWMH-based stuff, plus EWMH doesn't really give you a way to get a fully immersive experience (completely "replacing" the local machine with the remote) which many people want. Ideally rdesktop would support both; currently, you can use it with EWMH but have to configure the window manager yourself. I think, based on the comment about Motif hints, that that code in rdesktop simply hasn't been updated in a while. Is it meaningful to file a bug report (severity: whishlist) against

xpdf?

xpdf is a fairly old tool and there are modern alternatives that will play along with modern window managers better. Unfortunately, I also know they don't always work as well; xpdf development has focused on the PDF handling at the expense of the UI, and while many of the newer ones are based on xpdf, they are often slow to incorporate improvements in the PDF engine.

In the case of rdesktop, you should not use -f; try -D -K possibly

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along with a layout that supports managed fullscreen (XMonad.Layout.Fullscreen in darks XMonadContrib).

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