Re: wm compatibility

[Fred Kiefer]

Yes, GNUstep has a known issue with tiling window managers. At the moment I 
cannot remember the exact cause. It must be something about window sizing and 
placing. GNUstep expects to have full control of these and this is not the case 
for for tiling window managers. As tiling window managers haven’t been that 
popular the demand to look into this and finding a workaround hasn’t been huge. 
If you really need this feature I could explain to you how to get more debug 
information about what is going on and maybe you could suggest a solution or 
workaround based on that.

Hope this helps,
Fred  

> Am 11.07.2021 um 23:11 schrieb Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does GNUstep have compatibility issues with tiling window managers
> like i3? I'm seeing some odd behaviour and I'm trying to trace it's
> origin without much success.
> 
> I'm trying to tidy up some Emacs code and I'm seeing very odd
> behaviour that I can't begin to explain. When I resize a window using
> the mouse it's frame struct doesn't seem to have the correct size. The
> window (usually) displays fine, it just causes problems when I later
> try to get the height of the window and use it.
> 
> Directly setting the frame fails too, usually complaining that a size
> of ~400x400 pixels has a negative width...
> -- 
> Alan Third
>