Hello, I've noticed that X11 device windows (the ones that pop up when I plot something on Linux) aren't assigned any WM_NAME property until after they've been spawned. This causes problems for users of tiling window managers, who may wish to use the WM_NAME property to decide whether to float or tile the window.
If I create a plot and then examine the window properties with xprop, I see something like the following: WM_NAME(STRING) = "R Graphics: Device 2 (ACTIVE)". However, by instructing my window manager (xmonad) to float all windows with a matching name, I can tell that when the window was created its WM_NAME property was empty. Is this behavior intended? Would be it be reasonable to instead create windows with a generic name like "R Graphics" prior to updating them with the device number and active/inactive status? I'm not familiar with the R code base, but I found that creating a plot results in a call to the function in_do_X11 in the file src/modules/X11/devX11.c. In that function (around like 2869) there is code to parse out the window title from the SEXP args parameter, and it always seems to parse out an empty string. If I manually assign title="R Graphics" at that point, I am able to successfully float R plot windows based on their WM_NAME. (line numbers based on SVN revision 56131) Is this actually an issue that needs fixing? Should I create a bug report for this? Thanks, Drew [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel