Dwm: some questions (e.g. bring floating window to the background)

Hi,
currently I'm diving into the world of tiling window managers (or at least I try to).
dwm looks nice and fast (with awesome I have the feeling that changing the master window takes much time/feels slow)
One thing I couldn't find out is how to bring a floating window to the background (or a tiled window to the foreground). Floating windows always stay on top so that they prevent mo from seeing every part of a tiled window.
Thanks in advance for your help
Barghest
Last edited by Barghest (2009-04-27 17:00:04)

Ok, I tried the raiselower patch but it seem it's not working. I created the file raiselower.c
void
raisewindow (const char *arg) {
if (!sel)
return;
if(!(sel->isfloating || lt->isfloating))
return;
if (!arg) {
XRaiseWindow(dpy, sel->win);
} else {
if (lt->isfloating)
XLowerWindow(dpy, sel->win);
else {
XWindowChanges wc;
wc.stack_mode = Above;
wc.sibling = barwin;
XConfigureWindow(dpy, sel->win, CWSibling | CWStackMode, &wc);
and added the line
#include "raiselower.c"
to my config.h but when I makepkg I receive the following message:
In file included from config.h:39,
from dwm.c:242:
raiselower.c: In Funktion »raisewindow«:
raiselower.c:5: Fehler: Anfrage nach Element »isfloating« in etwas, was keine Struktur oder Variante ist
raiselower.c:10: Fehler: Anfrage nach Element »isfloating« in etwas, was keine Struktur oder Variante ist
I try to translate : Request after element "isfloating" in something, that isn't a structure(?) or a variable/attribute
/edit: Ok, I also tried pertag but I think it doesn't work with the latest version of dwm. I can only switch the layout of a tag once. When I switch to another tag and back again, changing the layout doesn't work anymore (on no tag).
Last edited by Barghest (2009-04-27 19:29:53)

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