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[Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:28:04 am Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> David Barth wrote:
> > I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor,
> > similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications.
> >
> > Aurélien: could you take a look at this last one?
>
> kdelibs provides an API to interact with the window manager. This makes
> it easy to loop through all toplevel windows and check if any of them is
> a popup or combobox.I guess libwnck can do the same on the GNOME side.
>
> This is all done through NETWM, so it can probably be done for all NETWM
> compliant window managers.

You should ping the kwin guys. They told me about a function you can call 
which will tell you this kind of useful information, but me in my infinite 
developerlessness can't remember :)

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org