On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:41:03PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:15:42PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: > > On 12/21/06, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I fear there is no simple solution unless Sun don't fixes the > > >JDK properly. Introducing frames for each client would mean much > > >more resource consumption of X, and the dwm codebase would get > > >more complex - one would need to change nearly all > > >resize-related stuff, manage() and unmanage(), besides extending > > >Client struct with Client->fwin. > > > > Just a (probably silly) idea: would reparenting to the parent help? I > > haven't read Sun's sources myself, but from what I understand these > > java progs discard all configurenotify's and resizes if they are not > > reparented (or rather, _until_ they are reparented). If one would > > reparenting such a window to what already is its parent, this java > > stuff might still react to the ReparentNotify this generates. For the > > rest nothing would change, so dwm's codebase wouldn't need to change > > any further. If this works, a nice "/* stupid hack to work around java > > issue */" above the code would suffice I think. > > > > Note that I don't really have a clue about this stuff, so this might > > all be nonsense; decided to share it anyway in case it isn't garbage > > though :-) > > I checked this already a while ago, but no that won't help. In > the Java Odyssey discussion I pointed to the Insets method, which > performs an XQueryTree(3X11) to check the window hierarchy. > We need a real parent window which is not the root window. > > One ugly trick which comes to my mind is, using a parent window > for all, which is not the root window. This could be a solution, > but I'm not sure about its impacts yet. Will investigate further > during 23c3 into this issue.
Nah nah nah, when remembering how the insets were calculated, that's not a solution... This stupid Java crap would determine a window decoration of the rest screen space which is not covered by a client window in such a situation. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
