Re: Is there an official way for an application window to request to not show up in a Window Manager's alt-tab list?

[Mark Tiefenbruck <mark fluxbox org>]

Hi, Jason.

That's something that is probably "none of the client's business"
(which, to be fair, I would levy against skip_pager and skip_taskbar
as well). I personally would prefer a window to specify some category
of window type that it falls into (such as a dock or taskbar or menu),
and let the window manager decide whether or not it should be listed
for the user. If your window is something that should never receive
the focus, there are already provisions for that. What sort of
application do you have in mind?

  Mark

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, vr movingparts net <vr movingparts net> wrote:
> re, all.
> In looking at the EWMH spec, I see _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR
> and _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER hints, but I do not see anything explicitly
> allowing an application to request itself to not be listed in the Window
> Manager's alt-tab window list.
> In some early testing, if I set these two _SKIP_ hints on my secondary
> application windows, Metacity, Compiz, and XFWM4 do not show my windows on
> their alt-tab lists, but KWin does.
> It seems that there's a gap in the spec for this functionality and I'm just
> wondering if it's this way because of previous discussions, or if this is
> something that should be remedied in the spec.
> Thanks! =:)
>
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