Thread: Python / GTK / Hildon: start application / bring to foreground if running
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2011-04-09 , 21:32
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Originally Posted by jstokes View Post
You can, but it involves X calls from what I know. I don't know how you do it in Python, though. If you have xprop installed, you can invoke "xprop -root" and look at the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW or _MB_CURRENT_APP_WINDOW. The numbers represent a Window ID (XID). You can use them to get the WMCLASS or the title of an application
Ah, thanks. I haven't known about this. But it seems more as a tool for developers... and after looking at the package I guess it is not a good idea to investigate how this works using python: Package

It would end with some wasted time. I'm trying to develop a application and if it works as I imagine myself at the moment I like to upload it to extra-devel and push it to extra-testing as soon as it works without errors.

But depending on this package this would never happen. So it couldn't be a solution for normal applications. Or am I wrong?

As you already stated, there should be a simpler way...
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Last edited by helex; 2011-04-09 at 21:35.