On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> [Apologies for the delay, I have been traveling.]
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Juan Diego Tascón wrote:
>>
>> Well I'm not sure about what would be the best way to implemented this
>> but config wise it would be nice to have a "show on every
>> group/desktop/workspace" property that could be changed inside hooks
>> or via key press, actually several stacking wm like openbox, blackbox
>> and kwin have this option in the window header along with maximize,
>> minimize, close, etc, not sure if this also applies to tiling wm
>> though.
>
> Yeah, I agree it would be useful. I'm not sure struts is the right
> way, though (in fact I don't think you need any X stuff at all,
> really, just the WM to have a global special case).
>
>> Another point that I thought just now is that I might be approaching
>> it in the wrong way, yakuake actually works fine when floating, the
>> only problem is if I open it in a group then switch to another group
>> then if I press the yakuake key to open/retract it won't work I have
>> to go to the group where I opened it, retract it, go back to the other
>> group and open it again. I have tried running "qdbus-qt4
>> org.kde.yakuake /yakuake/window toggleWindowState" but if I'm on a
>> different group it won't respond. Is it maybe a bug in yakuake? or
>> simply groups in qtile are completely different to workspaces in kde?
>
> Yes, the latter. Basically, windows shouldn't move groups without you
> telling them, but you're more than welcome to tell them to move
> programmatically with you as you switch groups. The easiest way to
> hack it without changes to upstream is to use the hook as I described
> earlier in the thread.
>
> That said, I would be happy to merge a patch that implemented the
> above special case.
>
> \t
>
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Hi Tycho, thank you very much for your help on this issue, yes please
do merge that patch, let me know when you had and I'll be happy to
test it. Cheers.

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