Michael Shigorin <m...@altlinux.org> writes: > Hello Bjørn, >> Removing WMFullscreenLevel had the side effect that a dock or panel >> having the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK type would stack on top of >> fullscreen windows, obscuring part of them. This is unwanted. No >> other window should cover a focused fullscreen window:. >> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/ar01s09.html#STACKINGORDER >> >> Simply raising the fullscreen window to the top of the stack of normal >> windows is not sufficient if there are windows with higher stacking >> levels present. The separate WMFullscreenLevel is needed. > > Well 0.95.8 broke my *very* convenient use case of having a > fullscreen xterm with mail/build/whatever and a casual another > non-fullscreen one on top of it, or switching between two > fullscreen windows (yeah, those inventive users!). > > I'd be grateful for an "advanced" knob making possible to ignore > this lame bit of the spec -- had to revert both g5561199 and > g6429847 in the mean time: having to Alt-Tab twice to get to a > newly created window (which isn't obvious at all in some cases > like ssh-askpass one) is a showstopper, g5561199 doesn't fully > help it. > > Thank you for the work from someone who got onto WM back in 1999 > or so, and who got back to it from Enlightenment (this particular > use case being one of *significant* advantages to me; there are > other pros and cons for both of these highly usable WMs of course).
Ouch. Sorry about that. I believe it should be possible to support the "newly created window" usecase by giving such windows focus, similar to what Alt-Tab now does. As for switching between two fullscreen windows, I don't see how that is possible. Only one fullscreen window can be visible on the screen at any time. But I believe I see your use case, having windows which magigally turn into full screen if brought to top (or into focus?). I guess that might be possible too. Haven't looked at how easy this would be to implement. I don't think the solution is less stacking levels in any case. Sounds more like we need more of them, if anything. Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
