class KWin

Class for interaction with the windowmanager. More...

Definition#include <kwin.h>
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Detailed Description

Convenience access to certain properties and features of the window manager.

This class is not supposed to be instantiated. It exists mostly as a namespace for the static member functions.

In KDE-2.0, communication with the window manger is done with the NET-protocol, a common window manager specification designed by various authors of X11 window managers (including those of the KDE project). The full specification can be found in kdebase/kwin/wm-spec/

To access features of the NET-protocol, use the classes NETRootInfo and NETWinInfo.

The purpose of this class is to to provide easy access to the most-commonly used NET-features with a simpler, KDEish interface.

In addition, it encapsulates KDE functionality not yet provided by the NET hints. Currently that is invokeContextHelp() and setSystemTrayWindowFor() only.

void  setActiveWindow ( WId win)

setActiveWindow

[static]

Set window win to be the active window.

This is a request to the window manager. It may or may not be obeyed.

void  invokeContextHelp ()

invokeContextHelp

[static]

Invoke interactive context help.

void  setSystemTrayWindowFor ( WId trayWin, WId forWin )

setSystemTrayWindowFor

[static]

Makes trayWin a system tray window for forWin.

A system tray window serves as an icon replacement. It's displayed inside the panel's system tray.

Info (struct)

Info

Info  info ( WId win )

info

[static]

Retrieves information about window win.

QPixmap  icon ( WId win, int width = -1, int height = -1, bool scale = false )

icon

[static]

Retrieves an icon for window win.

If width and height are specified, the best icon for the requested size is returned.

If scale is true, the icon is smooth-scaled to have exactly the requested size.

void  setIcons ( WId win, const QPixmap& icon, const QPixmap& miniIcon )

setIcons

[static]

Sets an icon and a miniIcon on window win

void  setType ( WId win, NET::WindowType windowType )

setType

[static]

Sets the type of window win to windowType.

Possible values are NET::Normal, NET::Desktop, NET::Dock, NET::Tool, NET::Menu, NET::Dialog or NET::Override (== no decoration frame)

void  setState ( WId win, unsigned long state )

setState

[static]

Sets the state of window win to state.

Possible values are or'ed combinations of NET::Modal, NET::Sticky, NET::MaxVert, NET::MaxHoriz, NET::Shaded, NET::SkipTaskbar, NET::StaysOnTop, NET::SkipPager

void  clearState ( WId win, unsigned long state )

clearState

[static]

Clears the state of window win from state.

Possible values are or'ed combinations of NET::Modal, NET::Sticky, NET::MaxVert, NET::MaxHoriz, NET::Shaded, NET::SkipTaskbar, NET::StaysOnTop, NET::SkipPager

void  setOnAllDesktops ( WId win, bool b )

setOnAllDesktops

[static]

Sets window win to be present on all virtual desktops if is true. Otherwise the window lives only on one single desktop.

void  setOnDesktop ( WId win, int desktop)

setOnDesktop

[static]

Move window win to desktop desktop.

void  setStrut ( WId win, int left, int right, int top, int bottom )

setStrut

[static]

Sets the strut of window win to left, @right, @top, @bottom.

int  currentDesktop ()

currentDesktop

[static]

Convienence function to access the current desktop. See NETRootInfo.

int  numberOfDesktops ()

numberOfDesktops

[static]

Convienence function to access the number of desktops. See NETRootInfo.

void  setCurrentDesktop ( int desktop )

setCurrentDesktop

[static]

Convienence function to set the current desktop to desktop. See NETRootInfo.

void  iconifyWindow ( WId win, bool animation = true )

iconifyWindow

[static]

Iconifies a window. Compatible to XIconifyWindow but has an additional parameter animation.

deIconifyWindow()

void  deIconifyWindow ( WId win, bool animation = true )

deIconifyWindow

[static]

DeIconifies a window. Compatible to XMapWindow but has an additional parameter animation.

iconifyWindow()

void  appStarted ()

appStarted

[static]

Use KStartupInfo::appStarted