Re: Workspace-aware panel applet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:27 +0100, Henrik Brink wrote:
> s�1 10 2004 kl. 17:17 -0500, skrev Havoc Pennington:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:12 +0200, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> > > 
> > > The pager applet displays current workspace as selected, so it is definitely
> > > possible. Look at that applet source (in gnome-panel module) to see how it
> > > detects which workspace is current and when it changes - it uses libwnck which
> > > is a library for communicating with window manager.
> > > 
> > 
> > Also, if you only care about workspace libwnck is probably overkill;
> > just monitor the _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP property.
> > 
> 
> That sounds like the way to go. What specific library is this proterty
> in?

It's an X property on the root window. So you would use Xlib or GDK to
monitor it. libwnck has sample code though it's probably a bit more
complicated than the way you'd want to do it, and it uses Xlib while
using GDK could be simpler.

Havoc