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

[Stefano Palmeri]

Alle 20:30, giovedì 24 gennaio 2008, Khos ha scritto:
> 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

Look for the project I sent today. You don't need anymore wmctrl.

Stefano
>
> 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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