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This protocol specifies a way for making it possible to reference a surface
of a different client. With such a reference, a client can, by using the
interfaces provided by this protocol, manipulate the relationship between
its own surfaces and the surface of some other client. For example, stack
some of its own surface above the other clients surface.
In order for a client A to get a reference of a surface of client B, client
B must first export its surface using xdg_exporter.export. Upon doing this,
client B will receive a handle (a unique string) that it may share with
client A in some way (for example D-Bus). After client A has received the
handle from client B, it may use xdg_importer.import to create a reference
to the surface client B just exported. See the corresponding requests for
details.
A possible use case for this is out-of-process dialogs. For example when a
sandboxed client without file system access needs the user to select a file
on the file system, given sandbox environment support, it can export its
surface, passing the exported surface handle to an unsandboxed process that
can show a file browser dialog and stack it above the sandboxed client's
surface.
Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and backward
incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible changes may be added
together with the corresponding interface version bump. Backward
incompatible changes are done by bumping the version number in the protocol
and interface names and resetting the interface version. Once the protocol
is to be declared stable, the 'z' prefix and the version number in the
protocol and interface names are removed and the interface version number is
reset.
A global interface used for exporting surfaces that can later be imported
using xdg_importer.
Notify the compositor that the xdg_exporter object will no longer be
used.
The export request exports the passed surface so that it can later be
imported via xdg_importer. When called, a new xdg_exported object will
be created and xdg_exported.handle will be sent immediately. See the
corresponding interface and event for details.
A surface may be exported multiple times, and each exported handle may
be used to create a xdg_imported multiple times. Only xdg_surface
surfaces may be exported.
A global interface used for importing surfaces exported by xdg_exporter.
With this interface, a client can create a reference to a surface of
another client.
Notify the compositor that the xdg_importer object will no longer be
used.
The import request imports a surface from any client given a handle
retrieved by exporting said surface using xdg_exporter.export. When
called, a new xdg_imported object will be created. This new object
represents the imported surface, and the importing client can
manipulate its relationship using it. See xdg_imported for details.
A xdg_exported object represents an exported reference to a surface. The
exported surface may be referenced as long as the xdg_exported object not
destroyed. Destroying the xdg_exported invalidates any relationship the
importer may have established using xdg_imported.
Revoke the previously exported surface. This invalidates any
relationship the importer may have set up using the xdg_imported created
given the handle sent via xdg_exported.handle.
The handle event contains the unique handle of this exported surface
reference. It may be shared with any client, which then can use it to
import the surface by calling xdg_importer.import. A handle may be
used to import the surface multiple times.
A xdg_imported object represents an imported reference to surface exported
by some client. A client can use this interface to manipulate
relationships between its own surfaces and the imported surface.
Notify the compositor that it will no longer use the xdg_imported
object. Any relationship that may have been set up will at this point
be invalidated.
Set the imported surface as the parent of some surface of the client.
The passed surface must be a toplevel xdg_surface. Calling this function
sets up a surface to surface relation with the same stacking and positioning
semantics as xdg_surface.set_parent.
The imported surface handle has been destroyed and any relationship set
up has been invalidated. This may happen for various reasons, for
example if the exported surface or the exported surface handle has been
destroyed, if the handle used for importing was invalid.