Feature request - Further EWMH support

conformal / spectrwm

A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

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Feature request - Further EWMH support #1

Closed enklave closed 10 years ago

enklave commented 11 years ago

Is it possible to implement EWMH further so that information about the WM and the current desktop is available through xprop?

It would allow people to use external bars/scripts by getting information about the current desktop and such.

dajohi commented 11 years ago

Do you have a particular list of hints you'd like implemented?

enklave commented 11 years ago

To use external bars information about current desktop, number of desktops and desktop name. Also the WMs name.

these are called(I think) _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES(UTF8_STRING) _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS(CARDINAL) _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING)

The first three would make it very easy to replace spectrwms own bar with an external one while still holding information about the current workspace.

alexad commented 11 years ago

I am in favor of this, too:

~$ xdotool get_num_desktops
Your windowmanager claims not to support _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS,
so the attempt to query the number of desktops was aborted.

dajohi commented 10 years ago

fixed in master