Window Strip and KWin

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday, November 13, 2011 16:13:07 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2011 13:18:09 Sebastian Kügler wrote:> 
> > Right now, we use XAtoms and pass -- I think -- absolute screen
> > coordinates. Maybe we can still have some mechanism like this, I mean
> > it's only about one rectangle on the screen which doesn't even change all
> > that often. New API though, I guess.
> 
> might be a solution... having an X atom and when it is set, we put the
> window in front of the list.

the window the strip is shown in is not the same window as the desktop .. but 
they are in the same process. so i suppose we could indeed set the positioning 
property on the desktop window and it would just magically show up over the 
window strip are in the panel window. yes, sounds like it'll work (without too 
much work ;)

> Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe :-) (No idea
> what's that idiom in English, so sorry to the non-Enlish speakers)

two birds with one stone. two flies with one swat is rather more likely an 
occurance, so i have no idea what the english world was smoking on this one ;)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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