Re: [wmii] Identifying the selected client

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:51:23 +0200

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:38:24PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:41:06PM +0000, Neptun wrote:
> > Is there any way to identify the selected client so that you can access
> > it's properties after it is not selected any more?
>
> No, simply because indexes aren't static and may change if a new
> client gets attached or moved/swapped around. Actually I have
> something different in mind, I'd like to represent the clients
> in /client with their window id (see xprop for detail), ie.
>
> /client/0x8063663/
>
> This window id might be accessed with
>
> /view/X/Y/id

Maybe doing this with the unique client id (which is wmii's
internal client address) might be better, because window id's
look pretty cryptic...

Regards,

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