Typing in unmanaged window about herbstluftwm

[ypnos]

You can already use a rule to make Plasma windows floating. In addition, this PR would also allow you to disable decorations: #1537

I use KDE and it works well enough for me. The only annoyance is that quite often, Plasma windows do not appear at the correct position. So e.g., a click on the clock opens the calendar widget in top-left corner. So I click the clock twice again to make it reopen at the correct position. I believe this is a bug that could/should be fixed. With pull request #1537 merged and this bug being fixed, there is probably no more reason to have Plasma windows unmanaged.

These are my current rules:

        " " => 'focus=on', # normally do focus new clients
        "windowtype~'_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_(DIALOG|UTILITY|SPLASH)'" => 'pseudotile=on',
        "windowtype~'_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_(NOTIFICATION|DOCK|DESKTOP)'" => 'manage=off',
        "windowtype='_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG'" => 'focus=on',
        "instance~'(plasmashell|krunner)'" => 'floating=on',

[Tchallenge13]

To make windows always appear as they are, add the line hc rule floatplacement=none to your config. If your floating windows tend to appear in the top-left corner, chances are it's because floatplacement is set to smart. With #1537 my only remaining problem is that a 'Plasma Desktop Workspace' entry is added to the panel whenever I open one of the menus from the panel. This does not happen to unmanaged windows. Can I somehow make herbstluftwm not tell plasma about some of the managed windows? Or is there any other kind of workaround?

[ypnos]

The floatplacement rule didn't help but thank you for suggesting it.

Currently, herbstluftwm exposes all managed clients through EWMH properties _NET_CLIENT_LIST and _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING. To change this behavior for particular clients, an attribute and resp. rule would need to be added.