On X11, please set the EWMH property _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE

[MHellmund]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am using the i3 window manager, together with a small utility to list and jump to all windows. The utility ignores wezterm. It ignores all windows where the window type is not set.

Describe the solution you'd like wezterm running under X11 should set _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE=normal, see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html

Many thanks for your great software!

[wez]

I'm not opposed to adding it, but I don't see it set in eg: xterm. Does that utility also ignore xterm?

From the docs:

_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL indicates that this is a normal, top-level window. Windows with neither _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE nor WM_TRANSIENT_FOR set MUST be taken as this type.

That last sentence suggests that the utility is in error for not assuming that the type is normal; I think it's more scalable to fix that issue in the utility, rather than asking every other app to workaround that issue.

[MHellmund]

Hmm, xterm has the same problem on my desktop and your reading of the docs seems right. So I just opened https://github.com/regolith-linux/ilia/issues/43

BTW, I looked for apps w/o type hint on my laptop and found only good old xterm, xclock, xeyes.... So I guess that at least every Qt- or GTK-app sets the type, perhaps by default. (I have a small self-written Python-Qt5 app and it has the type=normal hint and I don't set it explicitly in my code.)

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