[Gambas-user] New to Gambas - coding question how to find the active window on an Ubuntu 7.10 desktop

[Stefano Palmeri]

Alle 19:43, mercoledì 23 gennaio 2008, Khos ha scritto:
> Hi again,
> I am still struggling to do this, I have started searching for
> shell/terminal commands I could try use because  e.g. using shell xwininfo
> will allow me to hover the mouse over a window, then I click and it will
> give some info of that window I clicked on...but how can I do this without
> having to click on the window? I just want to be able to hover over any
> window and it should give me the windows info (size, is it he active win
> etc etc). Any ideas? desktop,find won't so this I think.. could you lok
> into this for me and provide some guidance?
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>

Hi, Kim.

All you need is this little utility:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmctrl/

after compiling and installing, simply open a lot of windows 
and the run

wmctrl -l

it will list all windows on your desktop. The little program has a lot
of options that will help you. See man page or "wmctrl --help"

Regards,

Stefano

> Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > On dimanche 20 janvier 2008, Khos wrote:
> >> Thanks Jose and Oh master of Gambas :)
> >>
> >> I will have a look at Jose's info but Benoit.. I have tried to use
> >> Desktop.Find() but the documentation was not so understandable for me.
> >> It would seem like a much simpler way with this. Does this function get
> >> all the windows titles and put it into an array? if so how would you
> >> know which
> >> one is the active window? there are no sample codes on how to use this
> >> function, unless you could point to some, I would appreciate your
> >> efforts very much :)
> >>
> >> Many thanks for the help so far folks!
> >> Kind regards
> >> Kim
> >
> > I don't know if it is possible to know the active window with X Window.
> > Maybe
> > the desktop manager stores a property about it in the root window?
> >
> > --
> > Benoit Minisini
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