Hi FYI, support for COMPOSITING_MANAGER atom has just been added to xfwm4 (Xfce window manager) embedded compositing manager in svn trunk.
It's not tested though, so if you make a test case for it, just let me know :) Cheers, Olivier. On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 11:17 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
