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woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

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Is it possible to position panel out of screen borders?

Title is self explanatory.

Troglodyte

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Registered: 2020-04-09

Posts: 16

Re: Is it possible to position panel out of screen borders?

I don't have an answer, but I'm insanely curious.  What are you achieve with this?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,014

Re: Is it possible to position panel out of screen borders?

If you mean position a panel off-screen, then the answer is no. The best you can do is hide it and set the background to transparent. It will become invisible.

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Misko_2083

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Registered: 2015-10-13

Posts: 191

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Re: Is it possible to position panel out of screen borders?

I tried moving it with Xlib, but the window manager overides the position.
But the panel will minimize (iconify).

Debian: install libx11-dev

save next as toggle-minimize.c

/* 
 *
 * Minimize or map a window
 * 
 * toggle-minimize.c
 *
 * Compile with:
 * gcc toggle-minimize.c -Wall -o toggle-minimize `pkg-config --cflags --libs x11`
 *
 * Usage:
 * toggle-minimize 0x1234567
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

int
main (int   argc,
      char *argv[])
{
  Display *display;
  Window window;
  XWindowAttributes attributes;

  display = XOpenDisplay (NULL);
  if (display == NULL)
    return 1;

  int screen = XDefaultScreen(display);

  window = 0;
  if (argc > 0)
    {
      sscanf (argv[1], "0x%lx", &window);

      if (window == 0)
        sscanf (argv[1], "%lu", &window);
    }

  if (window == 0)
    return 1;

  XGetWindowAttributes (display, window, &attributes);
  bool hidden = (attributes.map_state == IsUnmapped);

  if (hidden) {
     XMapWindow(display, window);
  } else {
     XIconifyWindow(display, window, screen);
  }

  XFlush(display);
  XCloseDisplay (display);

  return 0;
}

after compiling with

gcc toggle-minimize.c -Wall -o toggle-minimize `pkg-config --cflags --libs x11`

pass the Xwindow id of the panel to the app (from xwininfo for example)
The panel will minimize and restore with the command.

Last edited by Misko_2083 (2020-07-11 08:55:31)

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