i3 - improved tiling WM

Respect Motif hint for window decorations

Patch status: superseded

Patch by Tony Crisci

Long description:

When the _MOTIF_WM_HINTS property of a window specifies it should have
no title bar, or no decorations at all, respond by setting the border
style of that container to BS_PIXEL or BS_NONE respectively.

This comes from the old Motif window manager. It was originally intended
to specify exactly what sort of decorations a window should have, and
exactly what sort of user input it should respond to. The EWMH spec
intended to replace Motif hints with _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE, but it is
still in use by popular widget toolkits such as GTK+ and Java AWT.

i3's implementation simply mirrors Gnome's Metacity. Official
documentation of this hint is nowhere to be found.

For more information see:
https://people.gnome.org/~tthurman/docs/metacity/xprops_8h-source.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13787553/detect-if-a-x11-window-has-decorations

To apply this patch, use:
curl http://cr.i3wm.org/patch/361/raw.patch | git am

b/include/atoms.xmacro

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@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ xmacro(I3_SHMLOG_PATH)
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 xmacro(I3_PID)
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 xmacro(_NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS)
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 xmacro(_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS)
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+xmacro(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS)

b/include/window.h

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@@ -61,3 +61,10 @@ void window_update_role(i3Window *win, xcb_get_property_reply_t *prop, bool befo
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  *
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  */
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 void window_update_hints(i3Window *win, xcb_get_property_reply_t *prop, bool *urgency_hint);
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+
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+/**
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+ * Updates the MOTIF_WM_HINTS. The container's border style should be set to
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+ * `motif_border_style' and set to floating if border style is not BS_NORMAL.
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+ *
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+ */
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+void window_update_motif_hints(i3Window *win, xcb_get_property_reply_t *prop, border_style_t *motif_border_style);

b/src/manage.c

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@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ void manage_window(xcb_window_t window, xcb_get_window_attributes_cookie_t cooki
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     xcb_get_property_cookie_t wm_type_cookie, strut_cookie, state_cookie,
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                               utf8_title_cookie, title_cookie,
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                               class_cookie, leader_cookie, transient_cookie,
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-                              role_cookie, startup_id_cookie, wm_hints_cookie;
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+                              role_cookie, startup_id_cookie, wm_hints_cookie,
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+                              motif_wm_hints_cookie;
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     geomc = xcb_get_geometry(conn, d);
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@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ void manage_window(xcb_window_t window, xcb_get_window_attributes_cookie_t cooki
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     role_cookie = GET_PROPERTY(A_WM_WINDOW_ROLE, 128);
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     startup_id_cookie = GET_PROPERTY(A__NET_STARTUP_ID, 512);
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     wm_hints_cookie = xcb_icccm_get_wm_hints(conn, window);
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+    motif_wm_hints_cookie = GET_PROPERTY(A__MOTIF_WM_HINTS, 5 * sizeof(long));
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     /* TODO: also get wm_normal_hints here. implement after we got rid of xcb-event */
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     DLOG("Managing window 0x%08x\n", window);
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@@ -222,6 +224,8 @@ void manage_window(xcb_window_t window, xcb_get_window_attributes_cookie_t cooki
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     window_update_role(cwindow, xcb_get_property_reply(conn, role_cookie, NULL), true);
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     bool urgency_hint;
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     window_update_hints(cwindow, xcb_get_property_reply(conn, wm_hints_cookie, NULL), &urgency_hint);
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+    border_style_t motif_border_style = BS_NORMAL;
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+    window_update_motif_hints(cwindow, xcb_get_property_reply(conn, motif_wm_hints_cookie, NULL), &motif_border_style);
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     xcb_get_property_reply_t *startup_id_reply;
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     startup_id_reply = xcb_get_property_reply(conn, startup_id_cookie, NULL);
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@@ -444,6 +448,12 @@ void manage_window(xcb_window_t window, xcb_get_window_attributes_cookie_t cooki
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         floating_enable(nc, true);
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     }
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+    if (motif_border_style != BS_NORMAL) {
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+        DLOG("MOTIF_WM_HINTS specifies decorations (border_style = %d)\n", motif_border_style);
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+        floating_enable(nc, false);
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+        con_set_border_style(nc, motif_border_style, config.default_border_width);
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+    }
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+
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     /* to avoid getting an UnmapNotify event due to reparenting, we temporarily
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      * declare no interest in any state change event of this window */
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     values[0] = XCB_NONE;

b/src/window.c

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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@
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  */
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 #include "all.h"
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+#define MWM_HINTS_DECORATIONS   (1L << 1)
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+
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+#define MWM_DECOR_ALL           (1L << 0)
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+#define MWM_DECOR_BORDER        (1L << 1)
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+#define MWM_DECOR_TITLE         (1L << 3)
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+
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 /*
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  * Updates the WM_CLASS (consisting of the class and instance) for the
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  * given window.
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@@ -254,3 +260,53 @@ void window_update_hints(i3Window *win, xcb_get_property_reply_t *prop, bool *ur
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     free(prop);
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 }
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+
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+/**
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+ * Updates the MOTIF_WM_HINTS. The container's border style should be set to
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+ * `motif_border_style' and set to floating if border style is not BS_NORMAL.
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+ *
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+ * i3 only uses this hint when it specifies a window should have no
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+ * title bar, or no decorations at all, which is how most window managers
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+ * handle it.
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+ *
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+ * This comes from the old Motif window manager. It was originally intended to
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+ * specify exactly what sort of decorations a window should have, and exactly
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+ * what sort of user input it should respond to. The EWMH spec intended to
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+ * replace Motif hints with _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE, but it is still in use by
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+ * popular widget toolkits such as GTK+ and Java AWT.
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+ *
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+ */
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+void window_update_motif_hints(i3Window *win, xcb_get_property_reply_t *prop, border_style_t *motif_border_style) {
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+    /* This implementation simply mirrors Gnome's Metacity. Official
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+     * documentation of this hint is nowhere to be found.
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+     * For more information see:
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+     * https://people.gnome.org/~tthurman/docs/metacity/xprops_8h-source.html
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+     * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13787553/detect-if-a-x11-window-has-decorations
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+     */
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+
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+    if (motif_border_style != NULL)
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+        *motif_border_style = BS_NORMAL;
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+
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+    if (prop == NULL || xcb_get_property_value_length(prop) == 0) {
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+        FREE(prop);
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+        return;
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+    }
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+
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+    /* The property consists of an array of 5 `long's. The first value is a bit
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+     * mask of what properties the hint will specify. We are only interested in
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+     * MWM_HINTS_DECORATIONS because it indicates that the second value of the
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+     * array tells us which decorations the window should have, each flag being
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+     * a particular decoration. */
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+    long *motif_hints = (long *)xcb_get_property_value(prop);
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+
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+    if (motif_border_style != NULL && motif_hints[0] & MWM_HINTS_DECORATIONS) {
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+        if (motif_hints[1] & MWM_DECOR_ALL || motif_hints[1] & MWM_DECOR_TITLE)
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+            *motif_border_style = BS_NORMAL;
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+        else if (motif_hints[1] & MWM_DECOR_BORDER)
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+            *motif_border_style = BS_PIXEL;
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+        else
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+            *motif_border_style = BS_NONE;
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+    }
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+
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+    FREE(prop);
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+}