Respect dock windows better

[codic12]

We can treat them as special status clients and keep them raised.

Or the least we can do is at least respect their boundaries for maximization etc

[codic12]

This was fixed when I did the rewrite in Nim way back in November, I think..

[is0n]

We can treat them as special status clients and keep them raised.

This was fixed when I did the rewrite in Nim way back in November, I think..

I've noticed that _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK windows are not being raised. Instead they're just not being managed.

Is there any way of having them be raised?

[codic12]

Yes, I just keep them unmanaged. Should they be raised? Probably, I can't think currently how to do it though. Perhaps when any window is moved / resized, at the end iterate through all the dock windows and call XRaiseWindow on all.

[is0n]

Yes, I just keep them unmanaged. Should they be raised?

Dock windows (in my experience) are kept:

1. Floating
2. Raised above other windows

[codic12]

Perhaps when any window is moved / resized, at the end iterate through all the dock windows and call XRaiseWindow on all.

But this sounds kind of hacky, not sure how well it will work. but I guess I will try to implement this.

[is0n]

I don't know much about window managers but the simplest solution to me is to just prevent any dock windows from being unraised/lowered.

Or maybe when a normal window is being raised, you could raise them above other normal windows but below dock windows. 🤔

[codic12]

I don't know much about window managers but the simplest solution to me is to just prevent any dock windows from being unraised/lowered.

That would be true, but I don't think there's any X call to do that.

Or maybe when a normal window is being raised, you could raise them above other normal windows but below dock windows.

Yes, but that doesn't solve the issue if you drag a window over the panel to obscure it. I think that raising dock windows on move/resize is the only trivial way to solve this but I'll look at what other WMs do.