On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:30, John Accoun <json...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Those are windows within your process. To know which other X clients are running and their top level windows, you can use wnck. Regards, Tomeu > 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/ _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
