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Do any any minimal WMs, like scrotwm or xmonad (OR any others), support drag and drop between windows out of the box? If so which? If not, is there a way to enable such functionality?
A classic example would be to have a file manager in one window, from which you drag a file into an open application in another window to open it, etc. etc.
In X11, drag and drop is something that the application must support, it has nothing to do with the window manager. For example: you cannot drag'n'drop anything in a xcalc window, even with the Compiz window manager.
The X11 drag and drop protocol is called XDND: see http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/ for more information.
ranger.
Im using dwm (5.8.2 atm) and when i try to drag n drop anything from program A to program B, it works. You cant change workspace while draging files so you need to use the same workspace.
I just tried so it actually works ;))
Awesome supports drag and drop between windows. There is a catch: you can't change tags¹ while dragging, but you can show two tags at the same time (with all their windows) and then drag and drop.
¹something similar to a workspace, but more flexible
I use DWM and sometimes I want to just D&D a file from a terminal app into e.g. the browser, or create a screenshot with scrot and drop it there.
Maybe this little script, which does that (using dragon) is useful for some of you: The sequence for the latter use case is simply: hotkey to start -> select shot area -> click on the drop target -> done.
