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Dixon Steel
Dixon Steel

Reputation: 1061

X Windows events on Linux

I'm trying to teach myself out of curiosity how to grab events between two or more X windows on Linux. So far I'm a terrible hack at it and can only get the FocusIn and FocusOut events.

Anyone have any advice or quick tutorials on how to do this the proper way?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 370

Answers (1)

gmlime
gmlime

Reputation: 1017

Why don't you look at the source code to xev and xwininfo and see how they derive their information.

xev is like spy++ for windows and captures all sorts of events in real time: xev -id $(xwininfo | awk '/Window id/ { print $4 }')

xwininfo is more of a static tool to learn more about the properties of the window.

Upvotes: 1

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