Return values in Wayland XML specification

Quentin Glidic sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net
Wed May 24 15:43:30 UTC 2017


On 5/24/17 5:41 PM, adlo wrote:
>> On 15 May 2017, at 10:52, Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net> wrote:
>>
>> If you are writing/porting a window switcher, please consider using Wayland Wall window-switcher protocol[1]. If you are not, please don’t, as this protocol is very specific to switchers (it has "switch_to" and "close" requests).
>> If you need for more than this protocol offers, or something doesn’t fit your software, just fill an issue and we will discuss the possible designs.
> 
> Can your protocol get the type hint of a window? For example, can I find out if a window is a desktop, panel, or normal window, or whether it is skip tasklist, skip pager etc?

There is no need, because the compositor is supposed to list only 
relevant surfaces.


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Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic


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