On 14 September 2014 12:51, Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> wrote:
> What was the change good for? I vaguely remember that after a long
> discussion with other wm authors (Havoc?) the conclusion was that,
> given all the available documentation, that a window manager should
> react to new size hints only when the next ConfigureRequest
> arrives. Otherwise we could run into nasty race conditions.
>
> What is the situation this patch solves?
It comes from this:
commit 2b2f9a303832b6a23ce5c89752ad0fddc68ff417
Author: tadam <tadam>
Date: Sat Mar 17 23:52:52 2012 +0000
Fix XSizeHints problem with FVWM not correctly allowing resizing of
windows when the hints are toggled with respect to FVWM processing
XA_WM_NORMAL_HINTS. Noticed by R. Parlett.
I remember looking into this. Here's the original thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02790.html
ISTR I also had similar applications which were misbehaving without
this fix, but I have to say I've not seen any ill-effects from this.
-- Thomas Adam
