#! /usr/bin/env python

# Kill tooltips and similar override-redirect windows.
# Copyright 2011 by Akkana Peck -- share and enjoy under the GPLv2 or later.

# Empirically, tooltips have these properties:
# - mapped
# - override_redirect
# - transient_for
# wm_name may be the content of the tooltip or may be blank.
# Sadly, menus have all those properties too, so this will also hide
# any menus that happen to be open at the time.
# But most well-behaved programs will remap their menus just fine
# the next time you ask for them.

# Can't import just Xlib and use Xlib.display, sigh
from Xlib import display

# Next line prints: Xlib.protocol.request.QueryExtension
# There doesn't seem to be a way to suppress that, so just ignore it.
dpy = display.Display()
screen = dpy.screen()
root = screen.root
tree = root.query_tree()

for w in tree.children :
    att = w.get_attributes()
    if att.map_state and att.override_redirect and w.get_wm_transient_for():
        print "%d %d %35s %s" % (att.map_state, att.override_redirect,
                                 w.get_wm_transient_for(), w.get_wm_name())
        w.unmap()
        #dpy.flush()
        #print "now map_state is", w.get_attributes().map_state

dpy.flush()