You can do it indirectly by checking the process list for the master process for each of the major window managers (gnome-session, kdeinit, etc.)

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From: player-dev-bounces at helixcommunity.org on behalf of Ryan Gammon
Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 7:15 PM
To: player-dev at lists.helixcommunity.org
Subject: Re: [Player-dev] On Top functionality



I don't know of any X calls that return the window manager name.

In terms of freedesktop.org, I believe:

$ xprop -root | grep _NET_WM

_NET_SUPPORTED(ATOM) = ... _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE ...

indicates whether or not the wm does on top.


Greg Stacey wrote:

>Is there an X function to figure out your window manager?  I'm not much of an X guru by any means, so it may be available but I
>don't know it / can't find it.  Or are you suggesting checking running processes maybe?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg Stacey
>Principal Consultant
>Advanced Technologies Integration
>
> 
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nicholas Hart [mailto:nhart at real.com]
>>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 3:12 PM
>>To: Greg Stacey
>>Cc: 'Ryan Gammon'; player-dev at lists.helixcommunity.org
>>Subject: RE: [Player-dev] On Top functionality
>>
>>I assume it's possible for someone to install (or build if it isn't
>>available by default) a different WM that supports this feature.
>>Perhaps we should query specifically for dtwm (and any other known WM's
>>that don't support on top) and if it is in use disable the feature at
>>runtime.
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:00, Greg Stacey wrote:
>>   
>>
>>>The default system is CDE (Common Desktop Environment) with dtwm as the underlying window manager.
>>>
>>>Greg Stacey
>>>Principal Consultant
>>>Advanced Technologies Integration
>>>
>>>     
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Ryan Gammon [mailto:rgammon at real.com]
>>>>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 2:15 PM
>>>>To: Greg Stacey
>>>>Cc: player-dev at lists.helixcommunity.org
>>>>Subject: Re: [Player-dev] On Top functionality
>>>>
>>>>What window manager is HP using?
>>>>
>>>>Greg Stacey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>
>>>>>The most common HP-UX desktops do not support on-top calls.
>>>>> Considering this HP would like to disable this option in the GUI to
>>>>>prevent confusion and unnecessary bug logs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I was thinking of setting the widget to insensitive after it is
>>>>>created in app/gk/main_interface.c (#ifdef _HPUX of course).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Does Real have any problem with turning this off?  Or does anyone have
>>>>>alternate suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Greg Stacey
>>>>>
>>>>>Principal Consultant
>>>>>
>>>>>Advanced Technologies Integration
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Ryan Gammon
>>>>rgammon at real.com
>>>>Developer for Helix Player
>>>>https://player.helixcommunity.org
>>>>       
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>--
>>Nicholas Hart
>>nhart at real.com
>>Technical Lead, Helix Player
>>https://player.helixcommunity.org
>>http://www.real.com
>>
>>   
>>
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>


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