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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Determining which screen a full screen window is on
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-11-04 1:07:21
Message-ID: 200911032007.22073.mpyne () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 03 November 2009 09:39:05 David Jarvie wrote:
> On a multi-head system, is there any easy way to determine which screen a
> random full-screen window resides on?
> 
> QDesktopWidget is the only Qt/KDE class I can find which gives
> multi-screen information, but it only returns the screen number for a
> QWidget or a QPoint. I need to be able to find this information for ANY
> full-screen window - not just Qt ones - so the QWidget variant is no use.
> And KWindowInfo::geometry() and KWindowInfo::frameGeometry() both return a
> null QRect for a full screen window, so the QPoint variant doesn't work
> either.
> 
> Are there any other library functions to give this information? I could
> cobble something together based on how QDesktopWidget works, but it's not
> ideal for maintainability, and could be fraught from the cross-platform
> perspective also.

The NET series in kdelibs might be what you want.  (Like NET::WinInfo, etc.)

The API docs are hard to find though, you may have to Google it. :-/

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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