Get an X window ID

[Peter Hutterer]

eberrocal at laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es wrote:
> $ ./giveMeId
> Segment fault

Ah that one is easy. Your code is broken. If you fix it it'll go away.

Honestly, "Segmentation fault" is about as descriptive as telling your 
car mechanic that "the car doesn't work". A bit more detail would be 
appreciated. A gdb backtrace, the exact line of the segfault, etc.

In your case, it most likely means you're passing a pointer to xlib that 
doesn't have the memory initialised yet. My guess is children_return. Try

Window* children_return;
XQueryTree( ... blah ... , &children_return, &nchildren);

on another note:
RootWindow(dpy, screen) gives you the window ID, no need for XGetGeometry.


Cheers,
   Peter