chwso doesn't appear to work

[wmutils]

chwso doesn't appear to work

[lwilletts]

wmutils isn't EWMH compliant. Don't expect it to work within an environment such as GNOME or i3 that implements EWMH, and as far as I understand, EWMH can vary heavily in implementation and is beyond the scope of this project.

[z3bra]

wmutils's goal is to provide a full environment for someone to build their own way to manage X windows. The fact it can be used to extend existing window managers is a side effect. In this special case, there are chances that wmutils and mutter (if that's still Gnome's WM), are in conflict, both trying to take control over windows, which might be why wmutils appears to not work properly.

In order to "extend" and existing EWMH compliant window manager, I'd suggest using wmctrl instead. Whose purpose is to talk directly to the WM, rather than trying to bypass it.