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dep/animia: win/wayland: add UNTESTED support for wlroots protocols
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1 # Animia
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2 Animia is a work-in-progress cross-platform hard fork of Anisthesia and part of
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5 Most (if not all) Anisthesia configs should also work in this library as well
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6 (at least on Windows).
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8 ## Support
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9 Animia supports Windows, macOS, and Linux when dealing with file descriptors.
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10 When enumerating windows, it supports Windows, macOS (Quartz), X11, and
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11 Wayland (only via the `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1` and
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12 `wlr_foreign_toplevel_management_unstable_v1` interfaces).
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14 Unlike Anisthesia, Animia currently does not support UI automation, i.e., most
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15 web browsers will not work properly, if at all.
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17 ## Platform-specific quirks
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19 ### Windows
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20 To get the currently opened file handles on Windows, Animia has to use internal
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21 kernel functions. However, these functions aren't likely to change anytime soon.
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23 ### macOS
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24 The code to retrieve executable names on macOS uses internal functions. However,
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25 if these functions cannot be found for whatever reason, it falls back to parsing
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26 the arguments, and then to calling the kernel.
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28 Additionally, macOS does not have the concept of class names, rather, it has
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29 bundle identifiers, which are a suitable replacement in most use cases, and are
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30 what Animia will try to grab before falling back to the Quartz window name.
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32 ### X11
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33 If your X server has the XRes extension installed, Animia will use it to get
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34 PIDs. Otherwise, X11 has no idea what PID started your window. As a result,
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35 what Animia will give you is from the `_NET_WM_PID` resource, which is
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36 [very](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49970490)
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37 [unreliable](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49970271).
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39 ### Wayland
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40 Only Wayland servers that implement the `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1` or
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41 `wlr_foreign_toplevel_management_unstable_v1` interfaces will work with Animia.
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42 Currently, both Sway and Mir support the latter. Maybe some day we'll have
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43 major compositor support for `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1`.