Rofi Is Just A White Line

When ever I try to run rofi like this: bindsym $mod+d exec rofi -show run -lines 3 -eh 2 -width 100 -padding 800 -opacity “85” -bw 0 -bc “$bg-color” -bg “$bg-color” -fg “$text-color” -hlbg “$bg-color” -hlfg “#9575cd” -font “System San Francisco Display 18” it just appears as a white line in the middle of the … Read more

Why does `xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW` give me 0x0 for some windows?

.. and what can I do about it? When you try to get some information about the currently focused window you’re often told to just run xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW to get the window id of the currently active window. But sometimes – e.g. when a terminal window is on top – I get 0x0 as … Read more

i3wm urxvt wrapping issue when using hot key to launch. no issue when run from dmenu

Sorry for the long title. Wanted it be a little specific. I have an issue with my urxvt (rxvt-unicode) terminal emulator that’s using a themed fish shell. The problem is that when I launch urxvt with mod+enter the line wrapping messes up causing the datetime part to wrap onto the next line. Furthermore, when i … Read more

Atom on macOS: doesn’t switch to app when opening file from shell

Using Atom (latest version) on macOS 10.15.6 Catalina. I often open files in Atom from the shell, like this: atom SomeDocument.txt When Atom is not running yet, Atom correctly appears with the specified document opened. However if Atom was already running (which is often the case), regardless if it already had one or many or … Read more

Which window manager disallows a background window having focus

I currently use Gnome, but it has the peculiar tendency to sometimes focus on a window that’s not on the foreground, and often not even visible (because I mostly maximize my programs). So my question is, is there a window manager that explicitly disallows this kind of behavior, or explicitly ‘puts on top’ any window … Read more