ok, I have committed to cvs a patch which makes new windows ignore shaded ones when being placed initially.
Hopefully this will help users who want to have a window visible but not occupying screen space. The option is currently controlled by a #define in config.h called "PLACEWINDOW_IGNORES_SHADED". If you want to try out having this on or not edit config.h and comment out the last line of the file: #define PLACEWINDOW_IGNORES_SHADED 1 If this idea is left to enter blackbox permanently it will probably not be an option just part of the behaviour. We shall see.
