Bug#928396: xfwm4: 'wmctrl -r ":ACTIVE:" -b add,hidden' does not minimize the active window

[Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>]

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On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 18:06 +0200, pnd23@telenet.be wrote:
> After creating some panel launcher buttons to maximize (toggle), minimize
> and
> close the active window (reason: handle maximized windows when the titlebar
> is
> not shown), maximizing and closing windows succeed using the launcher
> buttons,
> while hiding windows does not. This was tested on xfwm4_4.12.15-1 and
> xfwm4_4.13.1-3.
> 
> Commands used by the launchers:
> 
>  - close window:
>       wmctrl -c ":ACTIVE:"
> 
>  - toggle maximize window:
>       wmctrl -r ":ACTIVE:" -b toggle,maximized_vert,maximized_horz
> 
>  - hide window:
>       wmctrl -r ":ACTIVE:" -b add,hidden
> 
> Patching the "clientUpdateNetState" function in "netwm.c" to handle
> "NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN" state changes resolves the issue (tested on
> xfwm_4.12.5-1; the reported version 4.12.5-1.1 is the patched version).
> 
> A proposed patch is included.

Hi, thanks for the report.

Can you directly report that upstream at https://bugzilla.xfce.org? I'm
reluctant to tune the behavior in Debian and I know Olivier Fourdan is quite
knowledgeable about windo manager standards.

Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis
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