Re: Whether the application is active?

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On 19:12 Wed 23 Jan     , aniket ray wrote:
> Is there a way to find out if the current application is the active
> application (has user-focus) or not?
>
> I have a gtk application with multiple windows and if any among the windows
> has focus then I want a variable (let's say boolean isActive) to be set as
> true.
> I tried changing the value of isActive based on focus-in and focus-out
> events of each of the windows. But then, if I switch from one window of the
> app to another, the variable is becoming false for a period of time (albeit
> a small one).

I can't provide you with a solution. However the question of active
windows is probably one of the window manager.

And I can't really imagine the need of telling an app that one of its
windows is currently active -- could you give some more information why
you want this? There might be another solution to what you want.

Felix