Window Previews are "empty"

TiZ-HugLife / xfce4-dockbarx-plugin

A plugin that embeds DockbarX into Xfce4-panel

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Window Previews are "empty" #14

Closed rik-shaw closed 9 years ago

rik-shaw commented 9 years ago

Window Previews are "empty" such as in this screenshot: xfce-docbarx-preview

I have read there are workarounds for this, namely that compiz must be enabled. I attempted to do that, but still have the problem, and would prefer to not use compiz. Is there a way to enable it with the xfce compositor?

TiZ-HugLife commented 9 years ago

Sorry, it's not possible. Window previews are possible with compiz because they export window previews over dbus. xfwm4 doesn't do that.

gsantner commented 7 years ago

@TiZ-EX1 Is this still the case? E.g. the XFCE task switcher uses window previews. Maybe theres an way to retrieve previews from API now https://www.xfce.org/about/tour

TiZ-HugLife commented 7 years ago

If it's a C API, we can't use it; all the heavy lifting is on the Python side and XFCE does not maintain Python bindings.