Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?

[Gregory John Casamento]

Granted that this will likely work, however, I believe that the ability to make
a window "omnipresent", which is what I think the real issue is here, needs to
be added to the backend officially.  What's described below, no offense, seems
kludgy to me.

Given that a number of apps are starting to NEED this functionality now, it
makes sense that it should be added.

Later, GJC

--- Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure I understand the problem,
> but here is how I get the roow window from GNUstep appplication:
> 
> Class xgserver = NSClassFromString(@"XGServer") // Get XGServer class
> GSDisplayServer *gsDisplay = GSCurrentServer(); // Get GSDisplayServer 
> instance
> Display display = [gsDisplay xDisplay]; // X window display
> NSArray *screens = [gsDisplay screenList]; // Get screens
> unsigned int screenNumber = [[screens objectAtIndex: 0] intValue]; // Get 
> first screen number
> Window rootWindow = [gsDisplay xDisplayRootWindowForScreen: screenNumber]; 
> // Get X window
> 
> Then you can use Xwindow function to draw on this root window.
> If you want to use GNUstep to draw, this may work (not sure):
> 
> gswin = [[NSWindow alloc] init...] // Get NSWindow instance
> gswindow_device_t *gsWin = [xgserver _windowWithTag: [gswin windowNumber]];
> 
> gsWin->ident is the Xwindow in NSWindow.
> Maybe you can reparent the root X window on the gsWin->ident,
> then you can use -gui to draw on it.
> 
> Most of the methods are not public, so you have to copy the headers from 
> -back.
> 
> Yen-Ju
> 
> 
> >From: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>
> >To: enrico@imago.ro, Armando Di Cianno <armando@nycap.rr.com>
> >CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> >Subject: Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?
> >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >
> >--- Enrico Sersale <enrico@imago.ro> wrote:
> > > On 2004-06-11 01:59:44 +0300 Armando Di Cianno <armando@nycap.rr.com> 
> >wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 2004-06-10 18:24:30 -0400 Charles Kerr <punt1959@msn.com> wrote:
> > > >> I have been using Windowmaker, and like the feel.
> > > > ...
> > > >> Having both, the workspace seemed to overlap with WindowMaker.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > > Actually ... is it feasible to have the icons draw right onto the root
> > > > window?  I ... *sigh* ... I run xscreensaver's on the root window, 
> >e.g.
> > > > `/usr/lib/xscreensaver/flurry -root`, and would love the ability for
> > > Desktop
> > > > to paint the root, but not create a "desktop window" that isn't the 
> >actual
> > > > root .... and if it just has to be so, Alt-Drag shouldn't be able to 
> >move
> > > it!
> > > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Is there a way to have a NSWindow which _windowNum is 0, that is, the X 
> >root
> > > window?
> > > In XGServerWindow we have a -_rootWindowForScreen: method returning a
> > > gswindow_device_t structure that represents the root window; it is used 
> >in
> > > -window::: to set the root window for all the new windows.
> > > I've tried to subclass NSWindow to override -_initBackendWindow: and 
> >then add
> > > something in XGServerWindow to setup all the stuff, but I can't because
> > > -_initBackendWindow: accesses windowmaps, a class variable of NSWindow.
> >
> >If you find the answer to this, please let me know as well.   
> >InnerSpace.app,
> >the screensaver in my GAP project, needs to have a window which sits at 
> >this
> >level as well.
> >
> >GJC
> >
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