On 12/3/11, Bastien Dejean <nihilh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it's useful when one wants to (properly) place dmenu at the > optical center of the screen and eventually add some incredibly > necessary margins. > Which is exactly what _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG is for. Note that doing this in the WM is the only way to do decoration (or preferably lack thereof), placement and sizing consistently.
Just because dwm lacks support for many window types doesn't mean window types are inherently evil.