window-managers

I am trying to build a panel application, alike avant window navigator or ubuntu unity. My question is once I build the panel with the predifined applications, how I can add items to the panel when applications are open or launch? Here is my source code in tcl: package require Tk set items {xterm gvim firefox} wm withdraw . toplevel .panel wm attributes .panel -topmost 1 ; # on top bind .panel <Escape> {exit} wm geometry .panel +0+0 wm overrideredirect .panel yes ; # remove window decorations set counter 0 foreach item $items { incr counter set separator " " label .panel.$counter -text "$item

I'm looking to understand how Linux Desktop Environments work with Xserver. I was reading that most window managers don't open sockets directly, instead they use either Xlib bindings for which ever language the WM is being written or you can use higher level bindings XCB; but i would like to know What are the advantages to opening a socket directly to the Xserver? The question should rather be "What are the advantages of using Xlib instead of a graphical toolkit like gtk"? Even to master Xlib, you have to spent months or years! It's so intricate that almost every app that has graphical content

I am inflating a view when a button is pressed. The inflated view is like a dialog box, however when I try to get focus on the dialog box with requestFocus() , requestFocus() returns false means I am not getting focus on the view, but when I manually tap the inflated view, it recieves focus. What am I doing wrong? I clear focus from the button (which is used to inflated the new view) before I call requestFocus on inflated view. Regards A possible reason why the View.requestFocus() method returns false (does not successfully request focus) is because of the following reason: "A view will not

Is there any way to get a list of all windows that are open at present and see what window is at the top (i.e. active?) from Python? This is using Gnome on Ubuntu Linux. wnck looks like it might do this, but it's very lacking in documentation. Josh Lee import wnck screen = wnck.screen_get_default() window_list = screen.get_windows() active_window = screen.get_active_window() See also Get active window title in X , and WnckScreen in the documentation. Other questions containing wnck have useful code samples. Here's the same code using the modern GObject Introspection libraries instead of the

We want to quickly prototype widgets in Java. We overlay them on top of a display written in a proprietary 3rd party graphics package. We find that the Java GUI steals keyboard focus away from the window manager. The window manager is fvwm, I've tried configuring it so the Java app is setup not to get focus, and furthermore if it ever does get focus to take it away and give it to the other GUI. If I run this with the Java app it doesn't work (whenever the mouse is over the Java GUI it has keyboard focus)- if I swap some standard X GUI widget (XEyes) in place of the Java GUI it works like a

Just wondering if there's a known way of getting a Mono System.Windows.Forms application to go fullscreen on Ubuntu/Gnome. Mono is 2.4.2.3 Ubuntu is 9.10 Doing it on Windows requires a pinvoke, clearly not going to work here. This is what I get setting window border to none, window position to centre, and state to maximised: alt text http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116092/misc/permalink/joggler/screenshot01.png Update. Have also tried: this.StartPosition = System.Windows.Forms.FormStartPosition.CenterScreen; this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Maximized; CTRL-F11 Text = string