On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:40:31 +0200 Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> said:
> On Friday 26 October 2012 19:04:31 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:04:40 +0200 Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> said: > > > What if there are two windows which want the exclusive state? Maybe a > > > manager selection is a better solution? > > > > it only becomes active if the window is focused, so it doesn't matter until > > window is "focused" (active). :) you can have 10 of these and alt-tab > > between them and each time your screen changes resolution. if the wm etc. > > code is done right, this will work just fine. :) > >From my experience it's not possible to alt+tab when running a game ;-) but > >I > get what you mean. In that case the nameing might be suboptimal as it's not > "exclusive". sure. name may be misleading indeed. perhaps make it resolution instead of exclusive? > > > Maybe the window manager just set a root window property if the resolution > > > is "temporarily" changed for a window? That would allow other parties to > > > ignore the resize event. E.g. a desktop shell adjusting itself to randr > > > events could look up the root window properties and ignore the randr > > > event. > > > > i think this is an internal implementation inside of kde - feel free to use > > private properties or any other mechanism that will work. for things like > > e17 it doesn't need to as the randr stuff is built in. the mechanisms via > > which to talk to your components (like krandr) may be custom from desktop > > to desktop (eg via dbus or unix sockets instead of properties), thus i > > think its best that the standard doesn't define this and leave it up to the > > wm/desktop to figure out. > I did not mean that for the communication with krandr, but really to just > tell all interested parties that the resolution is currently only temporarily > changed. That is pretty much important (I think) to any desktop shell where > the desktop shell is not part of the window manager. E.g. it would be > important if someone uses Compiz or Awesome in Plasma - there are still users > doing that. I would prefer to standardize that hint instead of having a > custom extension. sure, but my point is.. this is not part of the standard.. its private to that desktop shel''s method of working. it may use x properties, it may not. but it's an implementation detail of that shell. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
