Thank you Giuseppe, but I think I would still like some more guidance. I had a bit of trouble following x-tile source, but from what I understood, you get the window list by interacting with x11 C library which you load using ctypes. did I got that right?
I would like to avoid going that path as it feels a bit hacky and I don't have the knwledge on x11 it would take. Could anybody explain why none of my snippets do what I want? On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone <gius...@gmail.com> wrote: > you can take a look to the source code of http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/ > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:27, John Accoun <json...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> None of these work: >> >> ============================ >> >>> gtk.gdk.window_get_toplevels() >> [<gtk.gdk.Window object at 0xb74339b4 (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c170)>] >> >> >>> gtk.gdk.window_get_toplevels()[0].get_children() >> [] >> ============================ >> >> >> ============================ >> >>> d = gtk.gdk.DisplayManager() >> >>> d.get_default_display().get_screen(0).get_root_window().get_children() >> [<gtk.gdk.Window object at 0x89dcc84 (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c170)>, >> <gtk.gdk.Window object at 0x89dccac (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c0c0)>] >> ============================ >> >> The second method returns two windows with no children, regardless the >> amount of windows I have on my desktop. Could anyone point me the >> right direction and explain why none of the above does what I want? >> _______________________________________________ >> pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au >> http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk >> Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ > > _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
