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FS#521 - Awesome prevents Gnome panel from autohiding
User who did this - Maarten Maathuis (madman2003)

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I don't have access to my development machine, so i can't do anything but 
explain the situation.

Imagine having 2 docks, they don't know each other, so they will overlap, which 
is obviously undesirable. Eventually the EWMH 
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html) should be fixed 
to enforce something sensible everywhere. Look at 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2552069, for the 
mechanism which is used to request space at the edge of the screen.

So the "solution" was for awesome to control the placement. This allowed users 
to stack many docks. These days you can dock whatever you want, mainly because you want 
some floats that don't interfere with the tiled windows.

I forgot about docks that try to hide themselves, this is problematic in the 
sense that if there is more than one dock'ish window this will fail horribly 
anyway.

A "solution" would be to detect windows that have struts smaller than their 
width, height, and use that hint to place them.

But in my view hiding docks are odd in the context of a window manager such as 
awesome.

But you (or someone else) is more than welcome to fix it, as i said, i can't.
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