On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:41:05 -0700 David Roundy wrote:

Hi all,

I've been looking into how to make xmonad a bit smarter about laying out windows, and was trying to find out some way to extract some sort of information regarding the windows, and am basically at a loss. I decided to give up for now when I found the comment

-- XFetchName omitted

X11/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Misc.hsc

Yes, the X11 package is woefully incomplete -- hence the existence of X11-extras.

Does anyone have an idea how to get this sort of information? I know we *should* be able to access the name and class of each window, but can't see how to actually do so. :(

My general strategy when I want to implement something, but don't know which xlib calls are needed: 1. Find some source that accomplishes a similar task (dwm is a great candidate, it has very nice code) 2. Notice which xlib functions are called 3. grep X11 to see if these calls are implemented 4. If 3 is unsuccessful, read the man pages and write some FFI for X11-extras. Cheers, Spencer Janssen