I could use something like that if it's written cross-platform. For now, in Solaris, I'm doing my best to use Xnest to separate windows into categories, because some of our engineers use cad tools that spawn a lot of windows, and it's very difficult to know which window belongs to which instance of the cad tool.
BTW, it sounds like you're assuming a window is created by a process on the local system. Not a tremendously safe assumption, but partially safe in a controlled environment. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave giffin > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [XFree86] how to tell which linux process a window > belongs to? (window ID => process ID) > > > I'm writing a window manager to experiment with > different ways of organizing programs that users use. > > One of the things I'm trying requires that I know > which windows belong to which linux process. > > My window manager is called when a new window is > created. > But, I don't have any way of telling which process > they belong to. All I have is the window ID. > > I need a way to translate a window ID to a linux > Process ID. This solution doesn't have to be cross > platform, I just need it to work on linux. > > I'm using PLWM (a python library to implement window > managers in python). > > :) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
