Copyright © 2020 Aleix Pol Gonzalez <aleixpol@kde.org>
Copyright © 2020 Carlos Garnacho <carlosg@gnome.org>
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The way for a client to pass focus to another toplevel is as follows.
The client that intends to activate another toplevel uses the
xdg_activation_v1.get_activation_token request to get an activation token.
This token is then forwarded to the client, which is supposed to activate
one of its surfaces, through a separate band of communication.
One established way of doing this is through the XDG_ACTIVATION_TOKEN
environment variable of a newly launched child process. The child process
should unset the environment variable again right after reading it out in
order to avoid propagating it to other child processes.
Another established way exists for Applications implementing the D-Bus
interface org.freedesktop.Application, which should get their token under
activation-token on their platform_data.
In general activation tokens may be transferred across clients through
means not described in this protocol.
The client to be activated will then pass the token
it received to the xdg_activation_v1.activate request. The compositor can
then use this token to decide how to react to the activation request.
The token the activating client gets may be ineffective either already at
the time it receives it, for example if it was not focused, for focus
stealing prevention. The activating client will have no way to discover
the validity of the token, and may still forward it to the to be activated
client.
The created activation token may optionally get information attached to it
that can be used by the compositor to identify the application that we
intend to activate. This can for example be used to display a visual hint
about what application is being started.
Warning! The protocol described in this file is currently in the testing
phase. Backward compatible changes may be added together with the
corresponding interface version bump. Backward incompatible changes can
only be done by creating a new major version of the extension.
A global interface used for informing the compositor about applications
being activated or started, or for applications to request to be
activated.
Notify the compositor that the xdg_activation object will no longer be
used.
The child objects created via this interface are unaffected and should
be destroyed separately.
Creates an xdg_activation_token_v1 object that will provide
the initiating client with a unique token for this activation. This
token should be offered to the clients to be activated.
Requests surface activation. It's up to the compositor to display
this information as desired, for example by placing the surface above
the rest.
The compositor may know who requested this by checking the activation
token and might decide not to follow through with the activation if it's
considered unwanted.
Compositors can ignore unknown activation tokens when an invalid
token is passed.
An object for setting up a token and receiving a token handle that can
be passed as an activation token to another client.
The object is created using the xdg_activation_v1.get_activation_token
request. This object should then be populated with the app_id, surface
and serial information and committed. The compositor shall then issue a
done event with the token. In case the request's parameters are invalid,
the compositor will provide an invalid token.
Provides information about the seat and serial event that requested the
token.
The serial can come from an input or focus event. For instance, if a
click triggers the launch of a third-party client, the launcher client
should send a set_serial request with the serial and seat from the
wl_pointer.button event.
Some compositors might refuse to activate toplevels when the token
doesn't have a valid and recent enough event serial.
Must be sent before commit. This information is optional.
The requesting client can specify an app_id to associate the token
being created with it.
Must be sent before commit. This information is optional.
This request sets the surface requesting the activation. Note, this is
different from the surface that will be activated.
Some compositors might refuse to activate toplevels when the token
doesn't have a requesting surface.
Must be sent before commit. This information is optional.
Requests an activation token based on the different parameters that
have been offered through set_serial, set_surface and set_app_id.
The 'done' event contains the unique token of this activation request
and notifies that the provider is done.
Notify the compositor that the xdg_activation_token_v1 object will no
longer be used. The received token stays valid.