Hey Mark, thanks for the reply. The application in question has a main UI window and secondary windows. In certain cases, all windows will be full screened such that each window will be on a separate host monitor. Ideally, when this happens, only the main UI window would show up in the Window Manager's alt-tab list.
I was thinking that maybe _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY would be appropriate here, but in earlier testing, it looked like at least Metacity ignored the position that I placed the secondary window at and insisted on fullscreening it on top of the main UI app fullscreen window, which won't work. I'm assuming from that testing that _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY is probably not intended for the kind of thing I need to do. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Mark Tiefenbruck <m...@fluxbox.org> wrote: > Hi, Jason. > > That's something that is probably "none of the client's business" > (which, to be fair, I would levy against skip_pager and skip_taskbar > as well). I personally would prefer a window to specify some category > of window type that it falls into (such as a dock or taskbar or menu), > and let the window manager decide whether or not it should be listed > for the user. If your window is something that should never receive > the focus, there are already provisions for that. What sort of > application do you have in mind? > > Mark > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, v...@movingparts.net <v...@movingparts.net> > wrote: > > re, all. > > In looking at the EWMH spec, I see _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR > > and _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER hints, but I do not see anything explicitly > > allowing an application to request itself to not be listed in the Window > > Manager's alt-tab window list. > > In some early testing, if I set these two _SKIP_ hints on my secondary > > application windows, Metacity, Compiz, and XFWM4 do not show my windows > on > > their alt-tab lists, but KWin does. > > It seems that there's a gap in the spec for this functionality and I'm > just > > wondering if it's this way because of previous discussions, or if this is > > something that should be remedied in the spec. > > Thanks! =:) > > > > -- > > -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper // http://movingparts.net ]- > > -[ KDE PIM Developer // http://www.kde.org ]- > > -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};: // Numbers 6:22-26 ]- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wm-spec-list mailing list > > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list > > > > > -- -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper // http://movingparts.net ]- -[ KDE PIM Developer // http://www.kde.org ]- -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};: // Numbers 6:22-26 ]-
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