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Make sure Desktop environments use normal hint type and tiling window managers use utility hint type #507

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Make sure Desktop environments use normal hint type and tiling window managers use utility hint type #507

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Add fix for kde plasma
gort818 Sep 25, 2019
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Check if using a tiling wm, if so set hint type to utlity
gort818 Sep 26, 2019
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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions src/desktop-integration.vala
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Expand Up @@ -127,6 +127,22 @@ namespace Peek {

return folder;
}
public static bool is_tiling () {
var tiling_window =true;
var de_list = new List<string> ();
de_list.append ("Unity");
de_list.append ("GNOME");
de_list.append ("X-Cinnamon");
de_list.append ("XFCE");
de_list.append ("KDE");
foreach (string element in de_list) {
if ( xdg_current_desktop_contains (element) ) {
tiling_window = false;
stdout.printf ("Using %s Desktop Environment\n", element);
}
}
return tiling_window;
}

public static bool is_unity () {
return xdg_current_desktop_contains ("Unity");
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions src/ui/application-window.vala
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Expand Up @@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ namespace Peek.Ui {
SettingsBindFlags.DEFAULT);

// Configure window
if (DesktopIntegration.is_tiling () ){
this.type_hint= UTILITY;
}

this.set_keep_above (true);
this.load_geometry ();
this.on_window_screen_changed (null);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion ui/application-window.ui
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Expand Up @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Author: Philipp Wolfer <ph.wolfer@gmail.com>
<property name="default_width">440</property>
<property name="default_height">250</property>
<property name="icon_name">com.uploadedlobster.peek</property>
<property name="type_hint">utility</property>
<property name="type_hint">normal</property>
<property name="show_menubar">False</property>
<signal name="draw" handler="on_window_draw" swapped="no"/>
<signal name="screen-changed" handler="on_window_screen_changed" swapped="no"/>
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