Fullscreen applications (such as games) become minimised after switching between tags, and constantly require use of unminimize.sh about herbstluftwm

[MichaelDeets]

I originally thought this was a duplicate (hence being closed) but it was just a discussion thread.

The only "workaround" I've found is waiting for the application to start (as soon as Valve appears), then quickly switching to another tag (on the same monitor) while waiting for the intro to finish. After the intro is finished, it doesn't get minimised. Opening the application, while retaining its focus, and later switching tags, results in the application constantly becoming minimised.

[MichaelDeets]

The initial minimise is being triggered by this function. I had assigned rules to disable ewmh requests/notify, but it still occurs.

Adjusting the line to "false" stops the issue from happening; this is not ideal, and very dirty, considering I haven't looked into why the function is there.

[MichaelDeets]

I haven't looked into it at all, as I have changed the line to false and not had issues. I do not minimise windows regularly though.

Is there anything else I should do? I really haven't looked into it, just the surface level.

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[t-wissmann]

I would have guessed that the game minimizes itself. If an application (or panel) wants to minimize a window, it sends a ClientMessage which is handled by the function you were modifying. So your source code change is absolutely save if you don't use window minimization otherwise. But I agree that it's not a proper solution (I don't see a proper solution yet).

[MichaelDeets]

Replying to #1564 (comment)

That makes sense.

I migrated from bspwm, where I hadn't used the minimise function whatsoever, so I haven't found any problems using hlwm with this adjustment.

My original goal was to migrate over to Hyprland/Wayland, but I'm not sure if I can ever leave hlwm/X now lol

Thank you!