On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:28:35PM +1300, Karl. wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:19:19PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > One remark I forget to mention. If no WM runs, XWM don't tries > > to getInsets, because that won't make any sense obviously... > > I was wondering if running the java app inside a nested X server would > work as a hack to make it behave usably? I presume that the app would > see no window manager and therefore not activate the java WM-specific > hacks.
That should work, at least with Xnest it works. But I'd use the MToolkit instead of such hacks... > I have installed Xephyr (called xserver-xephyr under Debian) to try this > out, but I've not had time to seriously play with it yet. The oddity I > have seen, though, is that dwm rules seem unable to match the xephyr > window when it appears - there seems to be no class:instance:title info > to match against (I patched tag.c to print this info to stderr (as shown > below) - it works fine for all my other clients so far, but prints > nothing for xephyr). > > What am I missing? Is this likely to help with the java apps anyway? If xephyr hasn't set any of those hints, you could match against ":::" afaik. -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
