I tend to add the 'dialogue' to auto_float_types in my config. I also have a bunch of other rules for other apps, including gitk.
The flashing seems to be something I see a lot in Tcl/Tk based applications. I believe its due to our implementation of the WM_NOTIFY specification. You can avoid the flashing by using a layout that does not hide windows, like tile. On 1 January 2015 at 15:32, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 04:58:49PM +0800, Dario Giovannetti wrote: >> The "About" dialogs (usually opened from the "Help->About" menu) of these >> applications are shown as normal windows, i.e. they are tiled: >> >> * Firefox >> * Thunderbird >> * gitk (but *not* git-gui, which could be interesting for debugging) >> >> I think they should be floated, like for all the other applications I >> tested, but I'm not sure what property exactly should distinguish them from >> the other windows. >> >> I'm using the latest git version of Qtile. >> >> Do you think this is a bug in Qtile or in those projects' interfaces? > > Looks like for firefox at least, it sets WM_WINDOW_ROLE to "About", so > you could customize your floating layout to capture them: > > floating_layout = layout.Floating(float_rules=[{"role": "About"}]) > > It seems like it would be reasonable to float those by default, > though, some thing like this: > > https://github.com/tych0/qtile/commit/8ff87a78de05658944e0c89cb9cce1c692ca8e62 > > If nobody objects, I'll push that soon :) > > Tycho > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qtile-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
