Re: Interaction between applications and compositing managers

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Olivier Chapuis <olivier chapuis free fr> writes:

> I do not know, GTK and QT developer can surely answer (I found the
> notification type a bit out of topic).
> 
> But:
> 
> (1) It will be useful to know for which window the  override-redirect
> window is for. Either we can add, in the spec, that the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR
> hint should be set for override-redirect windows or add a new hint, say
> "_NET_WM_UNMANAGED_FOR", similar to WM_TRANSIENT_FOR.
> This can help a compositor which makes some persistent transformations
> on windows (as Metisse or Looking Glass).
> 
> (2) I think that using a new property "_NET_WM_UNMANAGED_TYPE" (and then
> NET_WM_UNMANAGED_TYPE_DND_WINDOW ...etc) will help to avoid
> confusion.

Both very good suggestions.

I'm not sure what you meant by the comment about the notification
type, though. Do you not think notification windows should be a
separate type?


Soren