I want to open rdesktop in a "maximized" frame, to cover the whole screen but the bar. For this purpose I set the geometry equal with the display resolution but on vertical I substracted the bar height. The problem is that rdesktop frame opens with an offset, never "maximized".
Thanks for asking, this is a good reason to fix this annoying thing for myself... The key line in the debug log seems to be this:
09.12.2014 21:26:17 - This window is a dialog window, setting floating
A bit of digging leads to commit 8ed95ae58cb371a24214ec0474199f5551829cd6 that was made as a fix to Bug 1182. Apparently, it has been deemed reasonable to assume that when an application requests a specific size, that it needs to be treated as a floating window.
Luckily, rdesktop also allows the size to depend on the screen size. With -g 100%, I managed to get the nice behavior back without specifying custom matchers in i3.conf.
Edit: Thanks, Daniel, for pointing out that this does not work in a multimonitor setup. Also, in a single monitor setup, rdesktop is not aware of i3bar, and a portion disappears from the screen. I ended up making a matcher in my i3.conf:
for_window [class="^rdesktop"] move workspace number 5; floating disable
Asked: 2014-12-09 11:29:19 +0000
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