Re: GtkWindow from X window id

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 cornell edu> wrote:
> Xavier Toth wrote:
>  > Is it possible to retrieve a GtkWindow using the native X window id?
>
>  Something like this might work:
>
>  GdkWindow *window = gdk_window_lookup(xid);
>  GtkWidget *widget = gdk_window_get_user_data(window);
>
>  Of course that only works if 'xid' corresponds to a GtkWindow that you
>  yourself have created *in the same application* that you call this from.
>   You can't use this, for example, to get a GtkWidget created in another
>  application -- there's no way to do that.

Cou could call gdk_window_foreign_new ;-)

Setting up a GtkWindow around that would be pretty custom though...

Cheers,
     -Tristan