https://github.com/hezkore/x11-toggle-desktop

Utility for toggling the visibility of your desktop on a Linux machine running an X11-based window system
https://github.com/hezkore/x11-toggle-desktop

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Utility for toggling the visibility of your desktop on a Linux machine running an X11-based window system

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hezkore/x11-toggle-desktop
• Owner: Hezkore
• Created: 2024-03-12T21:51:46.000Z (10 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-12T21:51:49.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-13T11:59:14.586Z (21 days ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 1000 Bytes
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# X11 Toggle Desktop Visibility

A very simple C program that allows you to toggle the visibility of your desktop on a Linux machine running an X11-based window system.\

Should work on all desktop environments, but tested only on XFCE.

## What does the code do?

The code uses the X11 library to interact with the X server and send a client message event to toggle the visibility of the desktop. It first opens a connection to the X server and gets the root window. It then retrieves the current state of the desktop visibility using the `_NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP` atom. Finally, it sends a client message event to the X server to toggle the visibility of the desktop.

## What is it good for?

* You can bind it to a keyboard shortcut.

* You can use it in a launcher application.

* You can use it in your own program to toggle the desktop visibility.

* You can use it as a desktop widget or action to toggle the desktop visibility.

Or just as a starting point for your own X11 program.

## Prerequisites

* libx11-dev

## How to build

```bash

gcc -o toggle_desktop toggle_desktop.c -lX11

```

Test it with:

```bash

./toggle_desktop; sleep 1; ./toggle_desktop

```