If you have a server like I do that doesn't even have a mouse, this WM can be very helpful. The name might seem a bit odd.but it comes from the fact that you DO NOT need a mouse to control this WM (other tilers say the same but there is a limited amount of things you can do with only keyboard commands in those). Ratpoison is basically the X version of GNU Screen (default config even shares the same shortcuts). This of course does not mean that you can't tile the windows. The ones that tried (or use) GNU Screen know what I'm talking about. Technically Ratpoison is NOT a 'tiling' window manager because the default behaviour is not to arrange windows in a tile grid, but to have a separate screen for every window. I tried poking around in the SDL2 source, and it seems that in SDL_x11window.c, the function SetWindowBordered(…) sets the property.I must say I'm surprised not many people use Ratpoison (even though I see A LOT of people using tiling window managers)įirst a bit of description ( for whoever has no ideea what it is ) In ratpoison it marks the window as transient by calling XGetTransientForHint(…). I’m not entirely sure this is an SDL2 problem, but I can’t find any other program that has the same problem, and I had the same issue both in dwm and ratpoison, and on NixOS and Arch. Running certain programs fixes this (qutebrowser, chrome, something using SFML) while other don’t (firefox, darktable, non-graphical stuff).

I have found when creating a window with SDL2 (for an OpenGL context), the window manager considers it a transient window.

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