Get an X window ID

racarr at beryl-project.org racarr at beryl-project.org
Thu May 17 07:50:15 PDT 2007


You could listen to events for the creation of the window.

On 5/17/07, eberrocal at laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es
<eberrocal at laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:19:56 -0300
> > From: "Paulo Zanoni" <przanoni at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Get an X window ID
> > To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
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> > You could try xwininfo.
>
> Thanks but, this program do not allow me to get the window ID (Window)
> with the process ID.
>
> I can see in the code that I can know the window id with the window name,
> and this works fine, but the problem is that normally my program do not
> know the name of the window that he is lunching, the only thing that my
> program knows is the process ID.
>
> I expect that my English have not been very bad.
>
> thanks for your time.
>
> Edu.
>
> >
> > 2007/5/17, eberrocal at laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es
> > <eberrocal at laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es>:
> >> My problem is that I need to know the ID of an X window.
> >>
> >> I have a program that lunch other program with the typical fork() and
> >> after execl().
> >>
> >> I have the ID of the process but I need the ID of the window because I
> >> need to send X events to this window.
> >>
> >> There are any form to get the window ID of a program (of what I have his
> >> process ID) ??:
> >>
> >> Thanks for your time.
> >>
> >> Edu.
> >>
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