Re: [dev] Find window with dmenu

From: Peter Hartman <peterjohnhartman_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:38:55 -0500

What I've been doing for a bit is using a modified version of lsw + xdotool:

~/bin $ cat dwm-xdo-focus
#!/bin/sh
TMPFILE=$HOME/.tmp/dwm-lastwindow
xdotool getwindowfocus > $TMPFILE
xdotool windowactivate $1



diff -r e86225980f5d lsw.c
--- a/lsw.c Sat Jun 18 18:47:03 2011 +0100
+++ b/lsw.c Sun Jun 19 13:31:48 2011 -0400
_AT_@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ lsw(Window win) {
         unsigned int n;
         Window *wins, *w, dw;
         XWindowAttributes wa;
+ const char *class = NULL;
+ XClassHint ch = { 0 };

         if(!XQueryTree(dpy, win, &dw, &dw, &wins, &n))
                 return;
         for(w = &wins[n-1]; w >= &wins[0]; w--)
                 if(XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, *w, &wa)
- && !wa.override_redirect && wa.map_state == IsViewable)
- printf("0x%07lx %s\n", *w, getname(*w));
+ && !wa.override_redirect && wa.map_state == IsViewable) {
+ if (XGetClassHint(dpy, *w, &ch))
+ class = ch.res_class ? ch.res_class : "broken";
+ printf("%3.3s | %-160.160s | 0x%07lx\n", class, getname(*w), *w);
+
+ }
         XFree(wins);
 }

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