Docking does not affect fullscreened apps

For reference, here's a screenshot of the problem. The lower portion of firefox is inaccessible.

I'm sorry I've let this bug sit for so long (uhh 6 months now?) but docking was never really fully implemented in CellWriter. I could not figure out how to get the struts Window Manager hint to work correctly. I can try looking at it again but I can't promise this will ever work right on all Window Managers.

If you can give me some links to applications that do manage to dock properly, it would be a great help. The only one I found was GOK and I could not figure out what I was doing differently from it.

Kiba and AWN are two docks in GNOME. They might use struts.

awn/src/awnx.c seems to carry a reference to xutils struts -- its hosted on launchpad with bzr. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk/annotate/340?file_id=awnx.c-20070730232002-i01h0e2hlfguxt72-115 especially lines 79-100. I suppose one should ensure they actually work before reading the code too hard.

Anyways, if you publish the code that isn't working, it'll be easier for people who do know how struts work to fix them =) It might make sense to use a real source repository if you're seeking collaboration.

Thanks for the tips, I will look at those programs. The docking feature has been "implemented" since October of 2007 (1.3.0). The source code has always been available from my website: http://risujin.org/cellwriter. I would be ecstatic if someone sent me a patch that made docking work properly, but I'm not holding my breath. :)

Yes, CellWriter is overdue for a proper source repository -- but that is another question.

Confirmed by upstream author

Interestingly, I can get this to work in with , so it might be a bug in metacity?