Allow surfaces over the lockscreen

Allows a client to request a surface to be visible when the system is locked.

This is meant to be used for specific high urgency cases like phone calls or alarms.

Warning! The protocol described in this file is a desktop environment implementation detail. Regular clients must not use this protocol. Backward incompatible changes may be added without bumping the major version of the extension.

allow(surface: object<wl_surface>)
Argument
Type
Description
surfaceobject<wl_surface>
Tell about which surface could be raised above the lockscreen

Informs the compositor that the surface could be shown when the screen is locked. This request should be called while the surface is unmapped.

destroy()
Destroy the kde_lockscreen_overlay_v1

This won't affect the surface previously marked with the allow request.

Argument
Value
Description
invalid_surface_state0
the client provided an invalid surface state

Compositor Support

No compositor support found

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