Re: [rox-devel] More python

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

Jonatan Liljedahl said:
> I've done a simple TaskMenu applet in python.
> If leftclicked it pops up a menu with all windows on current desktop,
> if rightclicked it pops up a menu with submenus for all desktop with
> their respective windows in each. (like sawfish's winlist)
>
> It's all simply a GUI frontend for wmctrl.
>
> Now, it would be nice to do these stuff more directly than processing
> output from another program, is there a way in python to get a list of
> all windows? (name, workspace and ID) and to activate some selected
> window? Do I have to use libwnck? (Is there python wrappers for
> libwnck?)

I believe the latest version of System is python and uses libwnck.  Maybe
System can give you good insights here.

I was recently been surprised to find that there isn't a xlib module in
python.  There is a project for one (http://python-xlib.sourceforge.net/).
 That module should let you recreate wmctrl in python I believe.