What windows are "popup windows"?

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 20:46:06 CET 2015


Hi,

Popup windows are indeed override redirect.

If the shadow do now show, check with another xfwm4 theme, some themes
"designers" tend to force their choice on the users and may override your
settings.

Cheers,
Olivier


On 17 November 2015 at 19:19, John Found <johnfound at asm32.info> wrote:

> In XFCE, compositing window manager, there is an option "Show shadows
> under popup windows".
> But what windows are considered "popup" in XFCE compositor?
>
> I have windows with override_redirect = 1, that are not decorated by the
> WM (as intended) but they
> never get shadows under. In addition I tried to set property
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_POPUP_MENU, but
> with null result.
>
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