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Xfwm should have a fallback path for invalid/unknown NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE values
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
normal
Product:
Xfwm4
Component:
General

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Description Alistair Buxton 2019-05-15 02:22:30 CEST 
aka NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_POTATO

Currently Slack is not showing on the alt-tab cycle menu. This is due to Slack setting NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE = NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MAIN, which is a non-standard value. Xfwm should gracefully fallback to doing something sensible when this happens.
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2019-05-15 22:51:36 CEST 
Olivier Fourdan referenced this bugreport in commit 22fe30cdd99d111f043b3282a02f39df468c7ac2

netwm: Fix window type for broken clients

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/commit?id=22fe30cdd99d111f043b3282a02f39df468c7ac2
Comment 2 Alistair Buxton 2019-05-16 01:16:36 CEST 
Seems to fix Slack for me.

Bug #15399

Reported by:
Alistair Buxton
Reported on: 2019-05-15
Last modified on: 2019-05-16

People

Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
0 users

Version

Version:
unspecified
Target Milestone:
Xfce 4.12

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