Identifying applications from windows to .desktop files

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
[...]
> We are now tracking applications usage to build stats and present the
> user with the most used apps. For this, we identify windows with their
> WM classes, and want to map this to a specific application, i.e.
> a .desktop file.

Why start from the window name/class? Why not enumerate running 
processes to identify which binary is running? From that binary it seems 
like you could get back to the package name if needed.


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