From 6426d580be709e6a3029c6be1cc79ecf4e1063cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aryadev Chavali <aryadev@aryadevchavali.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:51:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] scratchpad: Ensure new clients spawned by scratchpad go to
 underlying tag

Came from following: https://prithu.dev/posts/debugging-dwm/.  An
issue I thought I had to live with is actually trivial to fix!  Full
credit to them.
---
 dwm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index 719adb3..9e8c3b3 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -1177,6 +1177,7 @@ manage(Window w, XWindowAttributes *wa)
 	c->oldbw = wa->border_width;
 
 	updatetitle(c);
+	selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] &= ~scratchtag;
 	if (XGetTransientForHint(dpy, w, &trans) && (t = wintoclient(trans))) {
 		c->mon = t->mon;
 		c->tags = t->tags;
@@ -1193,7 +1194,6 @@ manage(Window w, XWindowAttributes *wa)
 	c->y = MAX(c->y, c->mon->wy);
 	c->bw = borderpx;
 
-	selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] &= ~scratchtag;
 	if (!strcmp(c->name, scratchpadname)) {
 		c->mon->tagset[c->mon->seltags] |= c->tags = scratchtag;
 		c->isfloating = True;