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mutter package

  1. Bug #1827738
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1827738

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

> The big problem is that graphical applications cannot distinguish their current state.
> If this is not a bug, then please give advice in how to query the iconified state.

Now that you mention it, maybe we don't need to log a mutter bug.

If you want the iconified state of a window you just need to query the value of its WM_STATE atom. For example on the command line:

$ xprop -id 0x3c00007 | grep -A1 '^WM_STATE'
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
  window state: Iconic