# libshew

**Repository Path**: mirrors_GNOME/libshew

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: libshew
- **Description**: Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libshew
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: LGPL-2.1
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
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- **Created**: 2025-06-06
- **Last Updated**: 2026-04-25

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## README

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# Shell External Windows

Shew is a small support library for dealing with external windows.

The code for creating external windows from a handle that are suitable for
setting a transient parent was copied from [xdg-desktop-portal-gtk].

The code for exporting a handle for a GtkWindow is losely based on code
from GTK/[libportal].

## Stability
This is an unstable library with no API or ABI guarantees, and no
soname versioning.

It is not recommended to use it outside the gnome-shell project, and
may only be used as a subproject.

## License
shew is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
version 2.1 or later. See the [COPYING][license] file for details.

[xdg-desktop-portal-gtk]: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
[libportal]: https://github.com/flatpak/libportal
[license]: COPYING