Receiving "PropertyNotify" events for the root window.

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Fri May 15 03:38:39 PDT 2015


On Fri, 15 May 2015 13:19:44 +0300 Yaron Cohen-Tal <yaronct at gmail.com> said:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to be notified about "PropertyNotify" events of the root window,
> for example to be notified when its "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" property is
> changed. As I didn't create the root window, I don't know how to be
> notified of events related to it, of if it's at all possible.

XSelectInput(disp, window_id, PropertyChangeMask);

(and OR (|) to the propertychangemask whatever other events you want to listen
to. window_id would be the root window id. disp is your Display * handle.

> Thanx,
> Yaron.


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