[Wine] Re: e-sword under a tiling WM

[ngoonee]

James McKenzie wrote:
> On 1/30/11 8:43 PM, ngoonee wrote:
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> > ngoonee wrote:
> > 
> > > vitamin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ngoonee wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Well, why does my WM know about other wine apps but not e-sword?
> > > > > 
> > > > Popup, tooltip, and like windows (most windows without caption) are created as unmanaged. It all depends on what kind of windows program is using.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I don't think e-sword is an unmanaged window. It has a caption, and the windows is permanent (not transitory). The program itself is free to use, though installation needs a few dlls set to native.
> > > 
> > > Would you be so kind as to test it out (if possible)? Or tell me how I can find out what sort of window esword is producing (xprop?).
> > > 
> > 
> > (very old) bump, with latest stable wine the behaviour is still the same. I think it may be app-specific, but e-sword doesn't seem to have any pop-up like behaviour on windows.
> > 
> > 
> You need to install msls31 functionality to get tooltips in e-Sword.
> 
> You will also need riched20/30 as well full textual functionality.  And 
> I'm working on fixing this, slowly but surely.
> 
> James McKenzie

Hey James, functionality is fine for me (I do have both of those), my question here is why my window manager sees e-sword as a floating window. Am using a tiling wm (awesome), but previously to this was using pytyle with similar results.