Have you tried gjs from the command line instead of the Looking Glass interpreter? It may be a case of doing things inside the compositor process vs. not. On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Amy C <mathematical.coffee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent this to both gtk-list and gnome-shell-list because I think my > question is relevant to both subjects - I'm sorry if this was the > wrong etiquette (also, if you think there is a mailing list this is > more suited to, please let me know). > > I'm trying to remove the window decorations on the active window. > > Using pygobject: > > from gi.repository import Gdk # Gdk.__file__ verifies it's 3.0 > > curwin = Gdk.Screen.get_default().get_active_window() > curwin.set_decorations(0) > curwin.maximize() > curwin.process_all_updates() > > When I execute this code (from python terminal/script), the current > window (terminal) is undecorated correctly and maximised as I expect > (I'm basically writing something to remove window decoration from > maximised windows). > > Then I try this from the javascript bindings: > > const Gdk = imports.gi.Gdk; > var curwin = Gdk.Screen.get_default().get_active_window(); > curwin.set_decorations(0); > curwin.maximize(); > curwin.process_all_updates(); > > When I execute this code from the GNOME interactive gjs interpreter > (looking glass), when I execute `curwin.set_decorations(0)` the window > in question closes itself. For example, if the current window is a > terminal and it has a process running in it I'll get the "Running > process in terminal; are you sure you want to quit?" dialog, from > which I can select Cancel (window will be maximised/undecorated as I > wish). If there are no processes running in the terminal, it will > simply quit! > > However, if execute this using the `gjs` binary (whether running > GNOME-shell or unity+metacity) I get "ERROR: Gdk.Screen.get_default() > is null" -- some environment variable not set up properly?? $DISPLAY > is :0 as normal. So I'm only actually able to test the javascript > version in GNOME-shell. > > If it's relevant, I'm using GNOME-shell 3.4 which uses Mutter > (metacity + clutter) for the window manager. > > Does anyone know : > 1) Why the javascript version quits the program whereas the python > version doesn't? > 2) How to make the javascript version work (i.e. not quit the window)? > 3) If not any of the above, how I may debug this further/ whether & > where to submit a bug report? > > > I'd be grateful for any insight you have. I prefer to do this from > javascript (since in the end it'll be put into a GNOME-shell > extension), but I suppose as a last resort workaround I can call the > python script from within the javascript to execute the code. > > Thank you very much! > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
