On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gregor Best <[email protected]> wrote:
> Qoth the manpage of urxvt:
>
> -bl Compile frills: Set MWM hints to request a borderless window, i.e.
> if honoured by the WM, the rxvt-unicode window will not have
> window decorations; resource borderLess. If the window manager does not
> support MWM hints (e.g. kwin), enables override-redirect mode.
>
> Since awesome does not support MWM hints, urxvt enables
> override-redirect which causes awesome to think "hey! that window does
> not want to be managed by me!" which it indeed then does not do. My
> approach to making a window borderless would be to simply not set a
> border width on that window.
Aha. Indeed this is what happens. To the OP who may be wondering
how to start urxvt windows without a border: you can probably get the
same effect by awful.rules:
awful.rules.rules = {
{
rule = { class = 'Rxvt' },
properties = { border = 0 }
}
}
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