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mercredi, juillet 9 2008

awesome and XDG base dir spec

Par jd le mercredi, juillet 9 2008, 10:50 - awesome

awesome now supports XDG base directory specifications. A step further to join the FDO standards.

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jeudi, décembre 27 2007

EWMH and XRandR

Par jd le jeudi, décembre 27 2007, 19:48 - awesome

Today I decided to add some EWMH support to awesome. It now supports a bunch of this extensions quite nicely.

However, while reading the spec and writing the code, it appears that this forces a window manager to behave in only one way: have a poor desktop support, and no multi-head/XRandR/Xinerama support at all.

The main caveats are that in Xinerama/XRandR mode, you'll have only one root window. And the root window is where you must store the NET_WM X properties… So you cannot handle screens in a independant way like awesome does. That's really a shame.

There's also a big problem for window managers like awesome which are happy to draw several desktops at the same time. There's no support for stuff like that.

So far, I think EWMH is nice but is really too narrow-minded for softwares and people who want to think window management in a different way.

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