[openbox] DockApp detection

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Thu Sep 16 10:14:48 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Brad Jorsch
<anomie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> As you may know, dockapps are detected by the WM_HINTS initial_state =
> WithdrawnState when the window is first mapped. And gtk+ doesn't allow
> this to be set, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139322.
> In Window Maker, we recently decided to treat apps with the WM_CLASS
> res_class = "DockApp" as if they had initial_state = WithdrawnState to
> allow dockapp devs to create gtk+ dockapps without hacking around the
> toolkit. You might want to take the idea too.

Cool, thanks for the heads up!  We will do the same..

Cheers,
Dana


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