Re: Child window information

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 fastmail fm>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:35:46 +0800
Ruchi Bajoria <bajoriar sg ibm com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am aware of  "xwininfo -tree -root" and it does give the output I am
> looking for.
> 
> 
>  However, I want to do this in a sawfish script file, not from the console.
> To get the list of child window objects to work with.

And here witness the death of the unix way. :)

Perhaps the output of "xwininfo -tree -root" could be parsed in lisp? You might want to set LC_ALL=C or LANG=C to ensure consistent output.


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Ethan Grammatikidis
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