What prevents windows from maximizing over KDE kicker?
Hello all, Does anyone know how windows are prevented from maximizing over the KDE kicker? In time I'd like to replace kicker with something a little bit fancier, but would like to prevent windows from maximizing over this launchbar. Any thoughts? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
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Hello all,
Does anyone know how windows are prevented from maximizing over the KDE kicker? In time I'd like to replace kicker with something a little bit fancier, but would like to prevent windows from maximizing over this launchbar. Any thoughts?
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff Try control center > desktop > Panels > Allow other windows to cover panel
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Try control center > desktop > Panels > Allow other windows to cover panel
Hmm, this would do the reverse of what I'm looking for: I'd like to have other programs prevent the desktop from covering them when maximizing a window. Always on top doesn't seem to work for this purpose... Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
Does anyone know how windows are prevented from maximizing over the KDE kicker? In time I'd like to replace kicker with something a little bit fancier, but would like to prevent windows from maximizing over this launchbar. Any thoughts?
The window manager, kwin, which is the program which controls how big windows become, etc., has an agreement with certain apps about how it should behave when a window is maximised. kwin and kicker between them define how big the "rest of the screen" is, and that's the value kwin uses when it wants to maximise a window. As long as your replacement panel program implements the protocol which allows kwin to understand how the screen should be used, it'll work the same. The protocol is obviously open, so it's just a matter of coding. :o) -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
As long as your replacement panel program implements the protocol which allows kwin to understand how the screen should be used, it'll work the same. The protocol is obviously open, so it's just a matter of coding. :o)
Heh, in other words: go try this email on the KDE development mailinglist or read through a large codebase. :) Ok, I'll see which one suits me best. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff
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