Peter De Wachter on 2007-05-01 12:36:14 +0200:
This patch makes xmonad obey (some) size hints set by clients, for example the aspect ratio hint set by mplayer. I also implemented the max size and size increment hints, as some clients seem to get confused if their window is "too large" (for example Xephyr).
I haven't tried your updated patch, but this version worked pretty well and is a nice usability improvement. I did some tests with zenity (GTK+ version of dialog) and was pleased to see that windows were of a sane size instead of stretched and distorted to full screen; pinentry-gtk for inputting GPG passphrases also acted nicely. Not all of the windows I expected to be resized were, though; in particular, the Konqueror/kwallet password prompt that is properly resized in dwm was still stretched to full screen. Additionally, the windows I tested that were resized appeared at the top-right of the screen instead of centered. I don't know if there's an optional hint to center them that zenity's not setting, if your code isn't acting on such a hint, or it's expected to be implemented in the window manager, but it would be nice if the windows appeared centered on the screen.