Am Freitag, den 16.09.2005, 11:31 +0200 schrieb Philip Van Hoof: > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:59 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > It can be useful for applications and desktop environments to detect > > whether an application manager is running, for instance to decide > > whether it should use the rgba visual. According to Matthias Clasen, > > there are no means to detect this as of writing [1]. Maybe we should > > have a per-Screen flag which returns whether a compositing manager is > > running for that particular Screen. > > Opinions? > > Take a look at the CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom which has historically been > used to make it possible to detect whether a clipboard manager is > running. > > Perhaps simply introduce a COMPOSITING_MANAGER atom exactly like the > CLIPBOARD_MANAGER atom?
This sounds *very* reasonable. I wonder whether it is OK to just add some routine that handles this to the compositing manager initializor without further xdg consultation. Are you fine with this, KDE community? -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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