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authorOrestis Floros <orestisflo@gmail.com>2022-09-24 11:15:12 +0200
committerMichael Stapelberg <stapelberg@users.noreply.github.com>2022-09-24 20:46:47 +0200
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Motif hints: Respect maximum border style configuration set by user
Context: Motif hints [1] allow applications to request specific window manager frame decorations. Most applications like alacritty, chromium, and godot, use the hints as a binary flag, setting or un-setting `MWM_DECOR_ALL`. Previously [2], we had disallowed applications to set the "normal" border style through motif hints. This effectively meant that users that had set `default_border pixel` would not see applications spawning with normal decorations [3]. However, that meant that applications like godot [4] could not toggle their border between none and normal so the behaviour changed with v4.21 [5]. That change however also allowed applications to override the default none/pixel border style the user set. For example, alacritty can be configured to either have all or no decorations [6] and they always set the motif hint on startup, completely overriding i3 user's preference: 1. If decorations are disabled with alacritty's config then they will override `default_border normal` and no title will be used. 2. If decorations are enabled (also the default behavior) with alacritty's config then they will override `default_border pixel` and a title will be used. This patch redefines how we interpret motif hints. When a client sets `MWM_DECOR_ALL`, we interpret it as "the maximum decoration the user has allowed for this window". I.e., if a client was all decorations and the user expects the window to not have a title, we don't include the title in "all" decorations. The user's preference is determined by these: 1. For new tiling windows, as set by `default_border` 2. For new floating windows, as set by `default_floating_border` 3. For all windows that the user runs the `border` command, whatever is the result of that command for that window. Example: - User opens new tiling window with `default_border pixel` => maximum decoration = PIXEL - Window requests all/title decorations => i3 enforces the user maximum decoration, PIXEL (no change) - Window requests no decorations => i3 accepts it and sets border to NONE, maximum decoration remains PIXEL - User toggles the border, next style is NORMAL => maximum decoration is now NORMAL - Window requests no decorations => i3 accepts it and sets border to NONE - Window requests all/title decorations => i3 accepts it and sets the maximum border, NORMAL - User toggles the border, next style is NONE => maximum decoration is now NONE - Window requests all/title decorations => i3 enforces the user maximum decoration, NONE (no change) With this, we will still allow behaviour where windows can toggle their border style with motif hints [4][7]. Reference/footnotes: [1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/vendorshell [2]: https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/2386 [3]: Notice how there is apparently a gap because `default border none` settings would not be respected if an application wanted just "border" decorations but this was never reported, probably because of the rare conjunction of applications requesting that and users defaulting to none borders. [4]: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/40037 [5]: https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/5135 [6]: Set by an underlying library here: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/blob/fafdedfb7d3a7370ca4b01108f7713b685633164/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/util/hint.rs#L113-L142 called by alactitty here: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/4ddb608563d985060d69594d1004550a680ae3bd/alacritty/src/display/window.rs#L341 [7]: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3678 Closes #3678 Fixes #5149
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