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author | Paper <mrpapersonic@gmail.com> |
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date | Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:15:35 -0500 |
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# Animia Animia is a work-in-progress cross-platform hard fork of Anisthesia and part of Minori. Most (if not all) Anisthesia configs should also work in this library as well (at least on Windows). ## Support Animia supports Windows, macOS, and Linux when dealing with file descriptors. When enumerating windows, it supports Windows, macOS (Quartz), X11, and Wayland (only via the `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1` and `wlr_foreign_toplevel_management_unstable_v1` interfaces). Unlike Anisthesia, Animia currently does not support UI automation, i.e., most web browsers will not work properly, if at all. ## Platform-specific quirks ### Windows To get the currently opened file handles on Windows, Animia has to use internal kernel functions. However, these functions aren't likely to change anytime soon. ### macOS The code to retrieve executable names on macOS uses internal functions. However, if these functions cannot be found for whatever reason, it falls back to parsing the arguments, and then to calling the kernel. Additionally, macOS does not have the concept of class names, rather, it has bundle identifiers, which are a suitable replacement in most use cases, and are what Animia will try to grab before falling back to the Quartz window name. ### X11 If your X server has the XRes extension installed, Animia will use it to get PIDs. Otherwise, X11 has no idea what PID started your window. As a result, what Animia will give you is from the `_NET_WM_PID` resource, which is [very](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49970490) [unreliable](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49970271). ### Wayland Only Wayland servers that implement the `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1` or `wlr_foreign_toplevel_management_unstable_v1` interfaces will work with Animia. Currently, both Sway and Mir support the latter. Maybe some day we'll have major compositor support for `ext_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1`.