rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit
Support floating hint for tiling window managers
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Description
On X11 (and I think Wayland too?) there is a standard to provide extra hints to the window manager when creating a window. One of the things this allows is requesting that a tiling/dynamic window manager not tile the window (open it in floating mode instead).
This is an important feature in order to provide a good user experience for people using such window managers, as there are many kinds of application windows which should be opened this way (games should work this way when not fullscreen and normal GUI apps should use this for dialogs, settings windows, floating toolbars, etc.).
AFAIK winit does not currently support this. Please consider adding support.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the X11 and Wayland window-creation paths and reviewing how existing window attributes are represented. Confirm the relevant hints for both protocols, then add floating-window support with coverage demonstrating that the requested hint is emitted.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100