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Window occlusion state and event

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start by reviewing the platform APIs named in the proposal: macOS NSWindow.occlusionState and NSWindowDidChangeOcclusionStateNotification, Windows DwmGetWindowAttribute with DWMWA_CLOAKED, and Linux X11 visibility-notify-event. Done means the project has a defined cross-platform occlusion state and event behavior, including the stated platform limitations.

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Description

enhancement

Apps sometimes need to know whether their window is actually visible to the user, not just shown but covered by other windows, for example to pause rendering or video.

Proposal: an occlusion state and event. macOS has it natively (NSWindow.occlusionState / NSWindowDidChangeOcclusionStateNotification); on Windows it can be approximated (DwmGetWindowAttribute(DWMWA_CLOAKED) plus a z-order/visible-region check), and on Linux via visibility-notify-event on X11 only.

Background:

  • leanflutter/window_manager#459: listen for the window being covered by another window
Dominant language
C++
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3d 1h
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