Issue with screenlocker obscured in background after display change

A consistently reproducible problem involving titlebar decorations & screenlockers. I would have submitted an issue on github, but I'm not even sure if this is an XMonad core issue, an X.L.NoFrillsDecoration issue, a general decoration issue, or what, exactly. Summary: ------------------------------------------------------- Screenlocker (tested with various) is obscured by windows after display change when using a minimal layout with titlebar decorations. Video demonstrating issue: ------------------------------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3P_VJIZBE0 Environment: ------------------------------------------------------- Dual monitor (laptop/external), normally used one at a time. I have a udev rule that triggers a shell script that switches display when hotplugging/unplugging. Scenario (as demonstrated in video): ------------------------------------------------------- 1. External monitor active, internal inactive (or vice versa, point being only one display active) 2. Screen lock using any of several common screen lockers (tested this issue with: xscreensaver, i3lock, sxlock) is activated while connected to external display. Hot-unplug of external display triggers udev xrandr script, internal laptop display is successfully activated. 3. If using layout without titlebar decorations, there is no problem 4 If using X.L.NoFrillsDecoration to make title bar decorations on the windows, the layout windows are drawn on TOP of the screen locker on the new display. The screenlocker retains input focus, so it can be unlocked, but it is obscured by the windows on top of it. (I can see the screenlocker through the terminals since I'm using transparency, but if a non transparent window, the screenlocker is completely obscured). Dotfiles: ------------------------------------------------------- Gist of very basic XMonad config I put together to test this. https://gist.github.com/altercation/1e5150369b4eb6f7caf013550de0bd43 Any ideas on work arounds for this? -Ethan Ethan Schoonover es@ethanschoonover.com @ethanschoonover http://ethanschoonover.com Freenode/Github: altercation

Ethan Schoonover
A consistently reproducible problem involving titlebar decorations & screenlockers. I would have submitted an issue on github, but I'm not even sure if this is an XMonad core issue, an X.L.NoFrillsDecoration issue, a general decoration issue, or what, exactly.
This is a very bizarre problem for sure. Open an issue under the xmonad-contrib repository so it doesn't get swept under the rug. -- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code

Peter, thanks for the reply on this. I was testing further to see if I
could mitigate it and have to provide some further information. I
don't really know if this will let XMonad off the hook or if it in
fact reveals a edge case issue:
I realized that my screen switching script (which is triggered on udev
events) included an "xmonad --restart" as xmobar was failing to
reposition properly. I removed the restart from my script and the
windows no longer appear in front of the screen locker.
I still find it to be interesting/strange that a restart with titlebar
decorations has different effects than restarting XMonad without
titlebar decorations.
I'm happy to submit an issue for this, though I realize that it's a
weird edge case if even that.
Cheers,
Ethan
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Peter Jones
Ethan Schoonover
writes: A consistently reproducible problem involving titlebar decorations & screenlockers. I would have submitted an issue on github, but I'm not even sure if this is an XMonad core issue, an X.L.NoFrillsDecoration issue, a general decoration issue, or what, exactly.
This is a very bizarre problem for sure. Open an issue under the xmonad-contrib repository so it doesn't get swept under the rug.
-- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Ethan Schoonover
I still find it to be interesting/strange that a restart with titlebar decorations has different effects than restarting XMonad without titlebar decorations.
The Decoration module is a trainwreck. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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