Reputation: 3986

Window iconification status via Xlib

Is it possible to check with the means of pure X11/Xlib only whether the given window is iconified/minimized, and, if it is, how?

Upvotes: 3

Answers (2)

Reputation: 6117

yes. there are several ways of doing it:

read the _NET_WM_STATE property and check its content (as described in 'http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2507241'). for code, how to do this see some windowmanagers (fluxbox or pekwm comes to mind)
read the WM_STATE property and check its content (as described in http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4.1.3.1).

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 25647

XGetWMHints() seems to be the preferred way of doing it.

There's also the function XGetZoomHints(), but that seems to have been deprecated.

Upvotes: -1