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

[Khos]

Thanks Stefano,
Appreciate your input, I wonder if there is a way to include this wmctrl
util when I compile my Gambas application? any ideas?

Bye for now,
Kim


Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> 
> 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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