On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:16:30AM -0700, Eric Joshua Hernandez wrote:
> You were right, that was the issue. My next question is how I can get the
> value of a window's "user specified location" from the Window object. This
> is what the property looks like in xprop
> WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
> user specified location: 0, 0
> user specified size: 2560 by 1440
> window gravity: Static
>
>
> The get_normal_hints() method of the Window class looks like this:
>
> def get_wm_normal_hints(self):
> wm_normal_hints = self.get_property(
> "WM_NORMAL_HINTS",
> xcffib.xproto.GetPropertyType.Any
> )
> if wm_normal_hints:
> atom_list = wm_normal_hints.value.to_atoms()
> flags = {k for k, v in NormalHintsFlags.items() if atom_list[0] &
> v}
> return {
> "flags": flags,
> "min_width": atom_list[1 + 4],
> "min_height": atom_list[2 + 4],
> "max_width": atom_list[3 + 4],
> "max_height": atom_list[4 + 4],
> "width_inc": atom_list[5 + 4],
> "height_inc": atom_list[6 + 4],
> "min_aspect": atom_list[7 + 4],
> "max_aspect": atom_list[8 + 4],
> "base_width": atom_list[9 + 4],
> "base_height": atom_list[9 + 4],
> "win_gravity": atom_list[9 + 4],
> }
>
> It doesn't look like "user specified location" is in the dictionary
> returned by that method. Is there a way to capture this hint?
Try get_geometry(). Related PR you might be interested in here, which
fixes user specified window placement:
https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/1710
Tycho
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