finding process id of a window

[Joel Dice]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 Jochen.Baier at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:

> Quoting Joel Dice <dicej at mailsnare.net>:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>>
>>> Joel Dice wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com wrote:
>>>>> I have few  X applications, started from the command line with identical
>>>>> command line, but each has a different DISPLAY environment variable.
>>>>> Is there a way to get the process id of a process from its window ?
>>>>
>>>> I asked about this a few months ago, and apparently it's not possible.
>>>> What do you need the process id for?  Perhaps what you're trying to do
>> can
>>>> be accomplished some other way.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm a bit off-topic here, but perhaps you should take a look at
>> xkill
>>> code.
>>
>> Good idea.  Unfortunately, xkill just calls XKillClient(Display,XID),
>> which does not give you access to the PID.
>
> hi,
>
> maybe this is what you looking for:

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Yes, that looks helpful.  Thanks!

  - Joel