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authormclasen <mclasen>2006-09-29 13:54:53 +0000
committermclasen <mclasen>2006-09-29 13:54:53 +0000
commitf0f4972d935f749a25361798ac22843bf8024477 (patch)
treefec9a6f1871947758aa8fb92604c79b1fd9beb2d
parent1a243dc66f738cc8a95879bc4c14d6a8206c4893 (diff)
downloadxdg-specs-f0f4972d935f749a25361798ac22843bf8024477.tar.xz
Add _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW
-rw-r--r--wm-spec/wm-spec.xml33
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml b/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml
index 7eb92b1..a8d3671 100644
--- a/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml
+++ b/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
-<!ENTITY version "Draft version 1.4.draft-1">
-<!ENTITY date "May 13, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "Draft version 1.4.draft-2">
+<!ENTITY date "Fri September 29, 2006">
]>
<article id="index">
<articleinfo>
@@ -1470,7 +1470,8 @@ This property contains the XServer time at which last user activity in this
window took place.
</para>
<para>
-Clients should set this property on every new toplevel window, before mapping
+Clients should set this property on every new toplevel window (or on the window
+pointed out by the _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW property), before mapping
the window, to the timestamp of the user interaction that caused the window to
appear. A client that only deals with core events, might, for example, use the
timestamp of the last KeyPress or ButtonPress event. ButtonRelease and
@@ -1498,8 +1499,29 @@ action or is a "pop-up" window activated by a timer or some other
event.
</para>
</sect2>
+
+ <sect2><title>_NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW</title>
+ <programlisting><![CDATA[
+_NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW WINDOW/32
+]]></programlisting>
+ <para>
+This property contains the XID of a window on which the client sets
+the _NET_WM_USER_TIME property. Clients should check whether the
+window manager supports _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW and fall back to
+setting the _NET_WM_USER_TIME property on the toplevel window if it
+doesn't.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+Rationale: Storing the frequently changing _NET_WM_USER_TIME property
+on the toplevel window itself causes every application that is
+interested in any of the properties of that window to be woken up
+on every keypress, which is particularly bad for laptops running on
+battery power.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2><title>_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS</title>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
+ <programlisting><![CDATA[
_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS, left, right, top, bottom, CARDINAL[4]/32
]]></programlisting>
<para>
@@ -2136,6 +2158,9 @@ New _NET_WM_CM_Sn manager selection for compositing managers.
<listitem><para>
Added note WM_TRANSIENT_FOR for override-redirect windows
</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+Added _NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW.
+ </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>