I looked through my blackbox mboxes, and didn't see the thread, but I did see it in the ChangeLog. I fthis now means that shaded windows are iconified, whouldn't it appear in the workspaces > Icons menu? I often find myself shading a window that I'm working in, opening another term and then going back to my first term. if the windows happen to be the same size (which my terms are) then i have to close the unshaded one, or alt + tab through everything on the workspace.
dan * Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 05-Jun-2002 dan radom wrote: > > i've noticed with alpha8 that new windows are placed over shaded windows. > > i'm using right to left and top to bottom window placement. on an empty > > workspace i open a new window. it's placed in the correct position. i shade > > it and open another new window, and it's placed right on top of the shaded > > one. pervious releases would place the new window directly below the shaded > > window. is this intended? > > > > yep, it was discussed on this list about a week ago and has been in cvs since. > > The idea is according to the ICCCM and other standards a shaded window is in > the "iconic" state. Most window managers ignore icons. > > >From my own experience and talking to users people like shaded windows but find > they do not help much because new window placement considered them. So they > still wanted iconification. The hope is that allowing people to shade a window > and have it act like an icon and thus be ignored may reduce the desire for > different icon access. > > Again in my own use and experience this patch simple means that the new windows > do not cascade (tile) as fast as they used to.
