Window previews in xfwm4

[Stephan Haller]

Hi Sonal,

I tried it and ... awesome :) That's the missing feature I had to xfwm4
and it works like a charm. Ok, to be honest it is not working a long
time here but no crashes or strange behaviours since it is running.

I hope your work will be reviewed soon and of cource, accepted :)

But as usual, after one feature another feature request follows ;) Don't
scare it is just a question: Do you think it will be possible (in the
future) to access this preview images publically? E.g. via a function
call or via DBUS or any other fancy interface? It would to great to make
use of it in xfdashboard and would increase the user experience to see
the window content from each minimized (or unmapped) window from the
beginning. So I can get rid of my workaround when the user is using
xfwm4 as his window manager which I believe most setups do. That would
be totally awesome.

Regards,
Stephan

Am Sonntag, den 11.01.2015, 06:32 -0800 schrieb Sonal Santan:
> Hello,
> 
> I think I have solved that bug. Now I request for preview caching in
> clientWithdrawSingle() which works reliably for all applications. I
> have pushed the changes to github. Please give it a try.
> 
> 
> -Sonal
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Sonal Santan <sonal.santan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hello,
>         
>         The missing preview bug I mentioned in my previous email seems
>         to only affect XFCE Terminal if that makes any sense.
>         
>         
>         -Sonal
>         
>         
>         On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Sonal Santan
>         <sonal.santan at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 Hello,
>                 
>                 
>                 I have upstreamed my changes for window previews to
>                 https://github.com/sonals/xfwm4.git for folks to try
>                 out. There is one bug I am still trying to track down
>                 -- occasionally, the preview comes out as blank for a
>                 minimized window. I capture the previews of windows
>                 which are about to be minimized inside unmap_win()
>                 hook of the compositor. Is this the correct location
>                 for capturing the previews of windows which are about
>                 to be minimized?
>                 
>                 
>                 For folks who are curious, the new function,
>                 update_win_preview() defined in compositor.c captures
>                 the previews. XImage to GdkPixbuf conversion happens
>                 in the new function, gdk_pixbuf_xlib_get_from_image()
>                 defined in a new file previews.c. 
>                 
>                 
>                 Will submit patches to the list after I have taken
>                 care of the bug mentioned above.
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 -Sonal
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>         
>         
> 
> 
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