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When using TopBar and WindowMaker (I think this happens on other windowmanagers though). If one uses the "maximize" button or menu option from WindowMaker, the window uses the full screen and so the title bar is hidden behind TopBar.

I fixed this locally by using xterm and running the following xprop command:

xprop -f _NET_WM_STRUT 32c -set _NET_WM_STRUT '0,0,28,0'

Then clicking on the TopBar

I understand that this command tells the window manager that there is a reserved box of size = screen_width x 28_pixel_height that should not be covered.

Not that one cannot use Terminal.app for this as the Terminal.app menu will cover TopBar and thus you'd be clicking on the Terminal.app menubar and not TopBar

Not sure how this could be translated to ObjC code.

I'm using WindowMaker with multiple workspaces.

I'm running TopBar.app, but it only shows on the first workspace.

How can I make TopBar always visible in all workspaces?

So the intention of TopBar is to show something when a non-GNUstep application is in the foreground.

Great! 👍

Wouldn't it be super cool if it would actually show the icons of those applications, in the same style as they are shown by GNUstep for GNUstep applications?

Qt applications on Linux automatically export their menus via dbus, so that global menubars can render them.

Kai Uwe Broulik has written a translator that makes Gtk apps and even Audacity work too!
https://blog.broulik.de/2018/03/gtk-global-menu/

With this, global menus work e.g., in Qt4 apps, Qt4 apps, KDE apps, Gtk2 apps (via appmenu-gtk-module), Gtk3 apps, Chrome/Chromium, LibreOffice, Firefox (via firefox-appmenu-bin), Java applications like JetBrains IDEs. Basically all apps!

Examples: helloSystem/hello#11 and http://www.webupd8.org/2017/02/alternative-global-menu-for-mate-and.html.

It would be awesome if TopBar could implement showing those menus that applications export via dbus.

Here are some implementations in other languages, I didn't find one in ObjC yet:

• https://github.com/jiqing112/Gnome-Global-AppMenu
• https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu
• https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu