[xmonad] ManageHook and child windows

[Raghavendra D Prabhu]

Hi,


* On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:44:40PM -0400, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > Now, I checked the code and noticed a  getTransientForHint being used
>> to
>> > check for this. Is there a way to add the above to it?
>> Did you have success? I'm having the same problem... each time firefox
>> spawn a window it appears in a fixed workspace (which is not always
>> the same that I'm using it), also most of them are dialogs, but they
>> tend to tile themselvs which is umconfortable.
>
>
> I started to rework the transients at one point with the above in mind,
>buit it caused very odd breakages.  I never did get the chance to track
>down exactly what was going on, and at this point I can't do so :(
>
>My best luck with Firefox was to doFloat windows whose appName was
>"Toplevel" (a bit of laziness on the Firefox devs' part...)
>
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So, after the previous post I did some digging in the code. 
  getTransientForHint  is from  Graphics.X11.Xlib.Extras haskell 
  library.

  getTransientForHint in turn calls xGetTransientForHint which is 
  in turn a wrapper around the Xlib library.

  Now, xGetTransientForHint is (from Xlib.h)


extern Status XGetTransientForHint(
     Display*		/* display */,
     Window		/* w */,
     Window*		/* prop_window_return */
);


The implementation is provided by libX11 and is:
     http://www.koders.com/c/fidB6EFD809F184F892950F588CCF941823CF003C65.aspx#L268

So there are two ways to fix this: 

   1. Fix in libX11 by adding another function or fixing existing 
   one.
   2. Fixing getTransientForHint in G.X.X11.Extras by adding 
   another condition to check for WM_CLIENT_LEADER according to 
   ICCWM specs.

#2 is more achievable in my opinion (by the maintainer of that 
library).

Regards,
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