Re: How to determine usable Desktop Bounds

["Gaurav Jain" <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

Hi Yeti,

Thanks so much for the useful response!  I was able to test out the
Extended Window Manager hints feature with a small program (I also
referred Nautilus source code which already uses this through gdk).

Thanks again!
Gaurav

On 3/22/07, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:48:48AM +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> > I need to determine the actual desktop bounds usable by a GTK
> > application on a Linux Desktop.  The screen size (the one returned by
> > gdk_screen_width() and gdk_screen_height()) also includes window
> > manager bars such as the task bar, the panels on top and bottom of the
> > screen, etc. and I don't want those to be included.
> >
> > What I want is the size that a GtkWindow can acquire if it is maximized.
> >
> > Is there a reliable way for me to determine this size?
>
> Sort of, see _NET_WORKAREA in the EWMH specs
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html
> But if you window has decorations, you cannot use it directly
> to calculate the maximized size and position.
>
> > Does Gtk
> > provide any method for me to do this?
>
> No.
>
> What `maximized window' means is defined by the window
> manager and windows are maximized by asking the window
> manager to do it.  Some window managers even may not support
> maximization or may have it intentionally disabled.  The
> right size and position can change over time (desktop is
> resized, bars are shown/hidden/resized, ...).
>
> Yeti
>
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