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Add a window manager that retrieves screen coords from KWin

Michael Weghorn requested to merge michaelweghorn/accerciser:michaelweghorn/retrieve_coords_from_kwin into master

Add a KWinWindowManager that can be used to retrieve window positions using the KWin window manager/Wayland compositor that is used on KDE Plasma by default.

For now, the Wnck-based window manager (that doesn't work on Wayland with native Wayland apps, see issue #41) remains the default. Use of the KWin window manager can explicitly be enabled by setting the environment variable ACCERCISER_WINDOW_MANAGER=kwin.

This partly solves #41 by providing an initial solution when KDE Plasma Wayland with KWin is used. More work is needed to make the quick select feature using the mouse position work as well.

A similar approach should generally be possible for GNOME/Mutter.

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