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I'm trying to get a list of all top level desktop windows in an X11 session. Basically, I want to get a list of all windows that are shown in the window managers application-switching UI (commonly opened when the user presses ALT+TAB).
I've never done any X11 programming before, but so far I've managed to enumerate through the entire window list, with code that looks something like this:
void CSoftwareInfoLinux::enumerateWindows(Display *display, Window rootWindow)
{
Window parent;
Window *children;
Window *child;
quint32 nNumChildren;
XTextProperty wmName;
XTextProperty wmCommand;
int status = XGetWMName(display, rootWindow, &wmName);
if (status && wmName.value && wmName.nitems)
{
int i;
char **list;
status = XmbTextPropertyToTextList(display, &wmName, &list, &i);
if (status >= Success && i && *list)
{
qDebug() << "Found window with name:" << (char*) *list;
}
status = XGetCommand(display, rootWindow, &list, &i);
if (status >= Success && i && *list)
{
qDebug() << "... and Command:" << i << (char*) *list;
}
Window tf;
status = XGetTransientForHint(display, rootWindow, &tf);
if (status >= Success && tf)
{
qDebug() << "TF set!";
}
XWMHints *pHints = XGetWMHints(display, rootWindow);
if (pHints)
{
qDebug() << "Flags:" << pHints->flags
<< "Window group:" << pHints->window_group;
}
}
status = XQueryTree(display, rootWindow, &rootWindow, &parent, &children, &nNumChildren);
if (status == 0)
{
// Could not query window tree further, aborting
return;
}
if (nNumChildren == 0)
{