Get client rect of the monitor

[oneeyeman1 (Igor K)]

Hi, ALL,

Is it possible to get a client rect of the monitor?

I.e. size without the taskbar (and possibly without global menu).

Thank you.

[ebassi (Emmanuele Bassi)]

It’s possible to get the work area only under X11: https://developer.gnome.org/gdk4/stable/gdk4-X-Window-System-Interaction.html#gdk-x11-monitor-get-workarea

Other windowing systems do not have this concept.

[oneeyeman1 (Igor K)]

Emmanuelle,
Do you mean plain X11or GNOME/KDE with X11 backend vs. Wayland backend?

Thank you.

[ebassi (Emmanuele Bassi)]

I mean plain X11. I’m not entirely sure any Wayland compositor will expose the work area through XWayland to X11 clients, but it might work.