https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409889
Bug ID: 409889
Summary: Staking order is not accessible in KWin scripts
Product: kwin
Version: 5.16.2
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: scripting
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: ra...@eml.cc
Target Milestone: ---
It looks like KWin does not exposes stacking order to its scripting system
anyhow. The only way to access list of managed clients by KWin is to call
allClientList() (or m_allClients) from workspace.h, which is not sorted at all.
And clients itself do not have any information about current stacking order.
The other way to access stacking order would be accessing root window property
'_NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING(WINDOW)'. But again — there is no way from KWin
scripting to access root window or its properties.
As for use cases. My general use case would be writing some advanced focus
switching plugins, which are not really belongs to KWin core. Indeed, X11
allows to write some plugins without a invovlment of windows manager. But that
way a lot of information is lost, e.g. list of activities to which some window
belongs to.
So I am requesting a feature to somehow provide stacking order to KWin
scripting, for example just giving direct access to workspace.stacking_order
list from workspace wrapper.
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