[openbox] ToggleShowDesktop hides omnipresent windows

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Wed Apr 22 14:48:51 EDT 2015


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:56:09 -0700,
> Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
>
> Dana> Omnipresent windows are not part of the desktop. TYPE_DESKTOP
> windows are
> Dana> omnipresent, and not hidden.
>
> I thought "omnipresent" was just Latin for "sticky".  I guess that was
> wrong.
>
> Fine.  But playing with ToggleShowDesktop and trying to make it do what
> I want, I see there must be some deeper misunderstanding on my part.
> What is ToggleShowDesktop supposed to be good for, in the big picture?
>

It's an implementation of SHOWING_DESKTOP from the spec, which says it's to
hide all your windows and focus the desktop.


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