Re: How does one get the screen coordinates of the workspace?

[Rick Berger <rckbrgr gmail com>]

Thanks for the suggestions, the GDK call that works follows, but I 
should of gave more background. My app is a suggester window which 
follows the cursor of different app, a text editor.  So I need to know 
the workspace boundaries to figure out were I have space around the 
editor's cursor to present the suggester window. An obvious situation is 
when the editor's cursor gets to the bottom of the screen the suggester 
will have to float along above it. All this is in C and uses shared 
memory for communication between the apps.

    GdkRectangle workSpace;
    gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea(gdk_screen_get_default(), 0, 
&workSpace);

Rick

On 15-12-29 05:26 PM, Rick Berger wrote:
> I'm looking for to get the screen coordinates, height and width of the 
> workspace on Ubuntu's desktop. The only way I see to doing this, is in 
> starting the app: maximize its window; get the workspace info from its 
> window's coordinates and dimensions; then un-maximize its window. I 
> believe these can be done with GDK.
>
> Is there better way to do this?
>
> Rick