Applied window title bar and window control display method in x window manager

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for displaying the title bar and window controls of an application window in an X window manager, which can display the title bar and window controls on demand while ensuring that the application window retains the title bar and window controls, and retains good information Presentation and window interaction effect, avoiding the visual damage of the title bar to the application window and maximizing the application window at the same time, making full use of the display space of the monitor, unifying part of the display effect of the QT program and the GTK program, and improving the management of different applications in the X window The window display effect under the monitor.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of network technology, in particular to a method for displaying application window title bars and window controls in an X window manager. Background technique [0002] For UNIX-like systems (Linux, BSD), there are various desktop environments and window managers, which can be roughly divided into tiling window managers (i3, Awesome, Openbox, etc.) and cascading window managers. Cascading window managers are mostly released as components of desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, Unity, etc.), such as Metacity in GNOME and KWin in KDE. Different window managers handle application title bars and window controls differently. [0003] First, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of existing tiled window managers and cascaded window managers. The feature of tiled window managers is that a large number of keyboard shortcuts need to be defined to complete the closing, maximizing, minimizing, and dragging of application windows...

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Problems solved by technology

The advantage is that the display effect is beautiful, but the window operation user interaction is cumbersome

The characteristic of the cascading window manager is that it will add borders, title bars and window controls to the application window, and the application title bar and window controls are in the same horizontal area (see appendix figure 1 ), the advantage is that you can easily perform operations such as closing, maximizing, minimizing, dragging, window stretching, etc., but the disadvantage is that the additional border and title bar are easy to be inconsistent with the application display style, affecting the aesthetics, and additional The title bar often occupies the display space of the screen, and the mix and match with the application window causes the display ratio of the main content of the application window to a certain extent to be out of balance, which further affects the aesthetics

[0004] Further analyze the layout style of the cascading window manager application window (see attached figure 2 , 3 ), for some complex applications, the display area under the X window manager often includes the title bar, menu bar, toolbar, and content area from top to bottom. Among them, the amount of information displayed in the title bar area is limited, but occupies A large portion of the screen display space, and caused the aesthetics of the application window to decline

However, for some applications that are easy to operate and the menu bar and toolbar are folded by default, the huge title bar will make the entire application window out of proportion and reduce the aesthetics

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