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| author | Philipp Knechtges <philipp-dev@knechtges.com> | 2011-11-20 13:09:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Owen W. Taylor <otaylor@fishsoup.net> | 2011-12-13 14:16:55 -0500 |
| commit | 6f007183616dd13dc7e1622985a99f3401a4b1f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 838c5a9de31490f3b9e062565e08e38509130657 /wm-spec | |
| parent | de23b5bd0a9f9b7ba5c61f60ae395d2e529ce7ec (diff) | |
| download | xdg-specs-6f007183616dd13dc7e1622985a99f3401a4b1f1.tar.xz | |
Adding _NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION
Adding a new property _NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION that as the name says
represents an area of the window that occludes the background.
The implementation is the same as discussed in
http://www.mail-archive.com/wm-spec-list@gnome.org/msg00715.html
Diffstat (limited to 'wm-spec')
| -rw-r--r-- | wm-spec/wm-spec.xml | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml b/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml index f7676e4..87dc02d 100644 --- a/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml +++ b/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml @@ -1553,6 +1553,31 @@ window's frame. left, right, top and bottom are widths of the respective borders added by the Window Manager. </para> </sect2> + + <sect2><title>_NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION</title> + <programlisting><![CDATA[ +_NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION, x, y, width, height, CARDINAL[][4]/32 +]]></programlisting> + <para> +The Client MAY set this property to a list of 4-tuples [x, y, width, +height], each representing a rectangle in window coordinates where the +pixels of the window's contents have a fully opaque alpha value. If +the window is drawn by the compositor without adding any transparency, +then such a rectangle will occlude whatever is drawn behind it. When +the window has an RGB visual rather than an ARGB visual, this property +is not typically useful, since the effective opaque region of a +window is exactly the bounding region of the window as set via the +shape extension. For windows with an ARGB visual and also a bounding +region set via the shape extension, the effective opaque region is +given by the intersection of the region set by this property and the +bounding region set via the shape extension. The compositing manager +MAY ignore this hint. + </para> + <para> +Rationale: This gives the compositing manager more room for optimizations. +For example, it can avoid drawing occluded portions behind the window. + </para> + </sect2> </sect1> <sect1> <title>Window Manager Protocols</title> @@ -2261,6 +2286,9 @@ OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. <listitem><para> Added _NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED. </para></listitem> + <listitem><para> +Added _NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION + </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> <sect2> |