Dear All,
I'm new to this list and I wonder whether I might ask your advice. I've
seen the new behaviour of the KDE "Show Desktop" button in KDE 3.5, and
I have to say, I think it's a misfeature. Since it's clearly a feature,
not a bug, I'm trying to hack up a script to replicate the old behaviour...
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The old behaviour upto and including 3.3.x was as described by comment
#4 here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108899 - and I think much
better. Basically,
(1) First press of Show desktop => All windows minimised
(2) Second press => Revert to previous states.
(3) BUT, if a window has been maximised from the taskbar
between (1) and (2), then forget the previous states, and don't try
to toggle back into an undefined condition.
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The new behaviour is:
(1) First press of Show desktop => All windows minimised
(2) Second press => Revert to previous states.
(3) If any window whatsoever is created, then (2) happens, and then
the new window is placed on top.
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I can see the rationale for this as "expose the desktop temporarily so
the user can access it to click on a file". But it's really annoying.
Consider:
a)I create a couple of konqueror windows, maximised.
b)I click on the "show desktop button"
c)I right click an icon on the desktop and choose "Properties"
d)I get the properties window I wanted, but to my great confusion
(and irritation), the desktop at which I was looking is now obscured
by the konqueror windows which have suddenly re-maximised, and which I
didn't ask for!
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Anyway, I'm trying to find a way to list and control windows from the
shell. Either some X function, or some DCOP function would be ideal.
I'd expect something to exist like:
dcop kicker getListOfWindows()
dcop kicker maximiseWindow()
dcop kicker minimiseWindow()
But I can't find them! kwin and panel don't seem to have anything
helpful either. Neither does X (there's xprop, xwininfo and
xlsclients), but these are insufficient.
I found this thread, but it isn't sufficiently helpful.
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/905
I've spend several hours searching, but to no avail - perhaps someone
here could point me in the right way?
Thanks very much for your help,
Richard
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