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Top Forums Programming Requesting general advice about window manager development Post 302988538 by wisecracker on Tuesday 27th of December 2016 04:06:25 PM

12-27-2016

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Hi SirSalt...

It might be worthwhile looking at:-

The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix

A plethora of WMs to guide you along, with source code for many of them.

(Surprisingly even the AMIGA catered for.)

It could be _virtually_ any popular language that they could be written in.

Enjoy the choice...

I admire you for wanting to take the plunge but beware of library updates, OS changes, kernel updates and more as they will hit your development sooner or later. These things break your code and you will have to go back chasing workarounds or rewrites to allow for them. I won't bore you with OSX and Quicktime Player but it has hit me several times on my project.
What should be a smooth development can be a rough ride, but hold in there and don't give in to application fatigue. See your project through to your end goal and beyond if that is what you want.

Good luck...

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metacity-message

metacity-message(1)						   User Commands					       metacity-message(1)

NAME

       metacity-message - send messages to the desktop window manager

SYNOPSIS

       metacity-message [disable-keybindings] [enable-keybindings] [reload-theme] [restart] [toggle-verbose]

DESCRIPTION

       You  can  use  the  metacity-message application to communicate with the desktop window manager to perform the following tasks: restart the
       window manager, reload the current window border theme, enable and disable keybindings, and enable debugging messages.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       disable-keybindings     Disable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       enable-keybindings      Enable keybindings for the desktop window manger.

       reload-theme	       Reload the current window border theme.

       restart		       Restart the desktop window manager.

       toggle-verbose	       Enable debugging messages for the desktop window manager.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Restarting the Window Manager

       example% metacity-message restart

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/metacity-message       Executable to communicate with the desktop window manager

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-wm		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volitile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-window-properties(1), metacity(1), metacity-theme-viewer(1), metacity-window-demo(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Sep 2004						       metacity-message(1)