Hey Mike, Great work, and I'm sure there are many developers available to help you with tips or solutions to your problems. A lot of them are quite busy though so you have to be patient.
Keep up the great work though!! -Keith On 22/03/2011, at 7:09 PM, Mike Cookson <cook60020...@mail.ru> wrote: > The goal of this application is to turn any window into panel with possible > autohiding (though currently i don't have yet option to disable autohiding :). > Should be very useful with detached toolbars and persistent dialogs, used as > tool boxes. > > Currently you have to specify window ID in command line. Run it with --help > option to see options. Advanced rules, such as window class, name, type, etc > may be added later. > > Tested with dclock, xclock, xcalc, kcalc,kcolorchooser, fbrun, gmrun and > glxgears under openbox, compiz, openbox, xfwm4 and metacity. > For now only first two don't cause problems. Under compiz problems with focus > are noticed under kcolorchooser and kcalc. For kcalc - i can't enter digits > by digital keys, but can delete entered digits with backspace. > > http://repo.or.cz/w/window-docker.git > > There are some problems with visibility. > 1. Regardless of what application is embedded, after first attempt window is > not visible in gtk socket widget. I have to terminate docker and restart with > same options, including window ID (currently it supports only such dumb rule > - more rules have to be added later), and only after this step window is > visible. > 2. However, sometimes owner of embedded window may terminate self on attempt > to embed its window, which seems to be destroyed, because gtk socket widget > is also destroyed in this case by default. > > KWin: Only problem 1 happens in all cases, without exceptions. > Problem 1: all > - Invisible after reparent to root: all > > OpenBox: > - no problems: fbrun, kcalc, kcolorchooser > - Problem 1: gmrun, xclock, xcalc, glxgears > - Terminated: dclock (however size of window is got correct) > - Invisible after reparent to root: all > > XFWM 4: > - invisible after reparent to root: all with one exception - kcolorchooser is > visible after first docking attempt for same window. > > Metacity: > - Problem 1: all > - invisible after reparent to root: None > Note: after second releasing of same window strange thing begin - two cases > follow each after other - first is when window is not visible, second - only > frame is visible, without any contents, which however, can be managed by WM - > e.g., closed. > > *** For developers *** > > Some of these bugs may be WM problems, i don't know, what are they. As > developer, i'm newbie, so please be patient. Any help is welcomed. > > The order of embedding is: > 1. Call gtk_socket_add_id () to add window to socket widget. > 2. Get gdk window object from socket in order to set widget size to size of > window. Just to be safe (i noticed, that gtk_socket_add_id () should do this > work). > > When docker exits: there is gtk main loop quit callback "on_quit", which does > the following work: > 1. Get gdk window from socket, than root window, using > gdk_screen_get_root_window() > 2. Reparents embedded window into root window > Btw: It is reparented always with position 0,14, got from window, returned by > gdk_window_foreign_new(), which is used before to embed window. Compiz places > such windows regardless of reparenting placement hint. > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
