electron-overlay-window

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Created: 5 years ago

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electron-overlay-window

Library for creating overlay windows, intended to complement Electron.

Responsible for:

Finding target window by title
Keeping position and size of overlay window with target in sync
Emits lifecycle events

yarn demo:electron

Important notes:

You can initialize library only once (Electron window must never die, and title by which target window is searched cannot be changed)
You can have only one overlay window
Found target window remains "valid" even if its title has changed
Correct behavior is guaranteed only for top-level windows (A top-level window is a window that is not a child window, or has no parent window (which is the same as having the "desktop window" as a parent))
X11: library relies on EWHM, more specifically _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN, _NET_WM_NAME

Supported backends:

Windows (7 - 10)
Linux (X11)

Recommended dev utils

Windows: AccEvent (accevent.exe) and Inspect Object (inspect.exe) from Windows SDK
X11: xwininfo, xprop, xev

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Package last updated on 07 Apr 2023

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