several feature suggestion

Oren Gampel oren at orengampel.com
Mon Dec 30 14:09:42 CET 2013


>> > Ok, so there are two problems:
>> >  1. Plasma desktops also appear as windows, and hence are useless to
>> > record. This leads to the question: How to detect such windows
>> > (without adding configuration options and preferably without
>> > hard-coding their name). Does xprop list anything useful for them?
>> > What is their _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE?
>> 
>> I'm afraid _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP
>> 
>> but...
> 
> why “I’m afraid” – this is actually good. I guess arbtt-capture should
> ignore all windows with that window type, right?

Ok, gotcha. Yes! That's just noise in the log as it is now...

>> "wmctrl is a UNIX/Linux command line tool to interact with an
>> EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager." And I did find xmonad docs
>> about integration with EWMH (
>> http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-
>> EwmhDesktops.html).
> 
> which I wrote some 7 years ago... :-)
> 

ROFL - here I am trying to help... :D


> And I guess I’ll need a bug tracker soon, to keep track of all ideas and
> loose ends...

I hope so. I see the project is from 2010. I think it can really gain 
from using a tracker, possibly a wiki based docs and other community 
tools.





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