Skip pager hint doesn't let you cycle to the window

mmassonnet at gmail.com mmassonnet at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 00:40:37 CEST 2007


On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > While I'm writing new code for the notes plugin, I wanted the next
> > behavior: skip the notes windows from the pager but still let the user
> > cycle to them.
> > 
> > It looks like xfwm4 doesn't cycle to windows anymore that have the skip
> > pager hint (or taskbar hint), while, for instance, it works on openbox.
> > Who is compliant?
> > 
> > I've found this[0] in the wm-spec, which describes the pager as a little
> > user interface for panels to manipulate the windows.  Should I report a
> > bug?  It sounds like a bug :p
> > 
> > [0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s02.html#id2462925
> 
> It is not a matter of being compliant or not, neither being right or
> wrong, the spec doesn't specify anything like that, thankfully.
> 
> In xfwm4 it is optional anyway, you can skip of include windows with
> SKIP_PAGER/SKIP_TASKBAR, check wmtweaks...

Great!  there it was.  I should have done that, but it flipped out my
mind while I was clicking and doing stuff /o\

> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Cheers ;)
Mike



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