Re: Why is minimizing an app and switching the desktop resulting in the same window-event: ICONIFIED ?

[Rorschach <r0rschach lavabit com>]

Really noone any ideo how to hide a window to tray when minimized but not when moving to another desktop with gtk?



On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:57:05 +0200
Rorschach <r0rschach lavabit com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm writing a trayicon (gtk-status-icon) in C for a linux-application. I created an event-handler for window-state-events. When the window gets minimized I wanna hide it to the tray. That means if the changed_mask and new_window_state become GDK_WINDOW_STATE_ICONIFIED.
> 
> But my problem is that also just switching to another desktop under X results in the state-handler to get executed and the window gets the ICONIFIED-state. Why is minimizing a window and switching the desktop are having the same state in GDK?
> 
> Here a little proof:
> 
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> gboolean window_state_event (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventWindowState *event)
> {
>     printf("%d\n",event->changed_mask);
>     printf("%d\n\n",event->new_window_state);
>     return TRUE;
> } 
> 
> int main( int   argc,char *argv[] )
> {
>     GtkWidget *window;
> 
>     gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>     window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>     gtk_widget_show (window);
>     g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "window-state-event", G_CALLBACK (window_state_event),NULL);	
>     gtk_main();
>     
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> Just compile with:
> 	gcc test.c -o test -Wall -Werror -pedantic `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`
> 
> And now you can test it. Minimize the window, which results in:
> 2
> 2
> or switch the desktop while the window is visible, again:
> 2
> 2
> 
> So now for my problem: when I code a trayicon I wanna hide it when it gets minimized but not! when a user switched the desktop. This seems impossible because the event is the same. Do you have any idea, any thoughts with this? Any help or hint is really appreatiated!
> 
> cu



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         Rorschach

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