plasma-workspace

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Friedrich W. H. Kossebau beefcb1581 Use explicit		8 years ago
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CMakeLists.txt	Use ${X11_XTest_LIB} rather than Xtst.	9 years ago
Readme.md	Proxy Xembed icons to SNI	11 years ago
fdoselectionmanager.cpp	Use nullptr	8 years ago
fdoselectionmanager.h	use override everywhere	8 years ago
main.cpp	Remove module prefix from Qt includes	8 years ago
org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml	Proxy Xembed icons to SNI	11 years ago
org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher.xml	Proxy Xembed icons to SNI	11 years ago
snidbus.cpp	Proxy Xembed icons to SNI	11 years ago
snidbus.h	Proxy Xembed icons to SNI	11 years ago
sniproxy.cpp	Use nullptr	8 years ago
sniproxy.h	Use explicit	8 years ago
xcbutils.h	Add transparency support for tray icon	10 years ago
xembedsniproxy.desktop	SVN_SILENT made messages (.desktop file) - always resolve ours	9 years ago
xtestsender.cpp	Inject mouse clicks from SNI to xembedded icons with XTest	9 years ago
xtestsender.h	Inject mouse clicks from SNI to xembedded icons with XTest	9 years ago

##XEmbed SNI Proxy

The goal of this project is to make xembed system trays available in Plasma.

This is to allow legacy apps (xchat, pidgin, tuxguitar) etc. system trays[1] available in Plasma which only supports StatusNotifierItem [2].

Ideally we also want this to work in an xwayland session, making X system tray icons available even when plasmashell only has a wayland connection.

This project should be portable onto all other DEs that speak SNI.

##How it works (in theory)

We register a window as a system tray container
We render embeded windows composited offscreen
We render contents into an image and send this over DBus via the SNI protocol
XDamage events trigger a repaint
Activate and context menu events are replyed via X send event into the embedded container as left and right clicks

There are a few extra hacks in the real code to deal with some toolkits being awkward.

##Build instructions

cmake .
make
sudo make install

After building, run xembedsniproxy.