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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Chaoswind on Thursday 31/May/2007, @00:06

> * KWin has a DCOP interface, allowing other KDE programs to communicate with
> KWin in a standard way

Hm, I checked KWin's interface with kdcop, but only found some neat things for configure the desktop and opacity. So, is this really all, or is there somewhere a switch to expose a mighty interface for poweruser and their scripts?

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by gnumdk on Thursday 31/May/2007, @00:10

To use kwin with dcop, just call dcop on an window, not on kwin...

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Chaoswind on Thursday 31/May/2007, @00:18

What?

I can't call dcop a window. I can only use the interfaces, exposed by the applications, and there is nowhere an advanced window-managing interface to found.

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by tendays on Thursday 31/May/2007, @11:25

As far as I know you can't address an arbitrary window. However all kde applications have a dcop module (or whatever that's called) that corresponds to their window.
For instance if I type dcop konsole-4414 konsole-mainwindow\#1 (4414 being my konsole pid atm)
I get a list of 135 functions, like setSize, focus, maximize, raise, etc etc.

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Re: Aquamarine + beryl
by Chaoswind on Thursday 31/May/2007, @12:15

Exactly. But not every application is a kde-application. And in fact, there are also kde-application which does'nt offers this interface, ktorrent oder dialogs for example.

So, a complete scriptable interface, for every window, would be nice. I know, there exist wmctrl, but this prog has limits.

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