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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2005-09-03 23:33:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Elijah Newren <newren@src.gnome.org> | 2005-09-03 23:33:27 +0000 |
| commit | 86bbde337cc97aedef9daa7672ce034641b340e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 485f7ffe6701ab776e8eed47b193ffc07de107a1 | |
| parent | 809a1c173fd53d2f0fe8071f46e2a0d6d4c100aa (diff) | |
| download | metacity-86bbde337cc97aedef9daa7672ce034641b340e5.tar.gz | |
Add tips on how to more easily get the ids of windows, and how to shorten
2005-09-03 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
* HACKING: Add tips on how to more easily get the ids of windows,
and how to shorten xprop output.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 20 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-09-03 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> + + * HACKING: Add tips on how to more easily get the ids of windows, + and how to shorten xprop output. + 2005-09-02 Brent Smith <gnome@nextreality.net> * src/place.c: (meta_window_place): Moved the call to @@ -69,16 +69,22 @@ Relevant standards and X properties xprop in a terminal and click on one of the windows on your screen. That gives you the x properties for that window. Look through them and get a basic - idea of what's there for kicks. Next, try running + idea of what's there for kicks. Note that you can get rid of some of the + verboseness by grepping out the _NET_WM_ICON stuff, i.e. + xprop | grep -v _NET_WM_ICON + Next, try running xprop -root in a terminal. There's all the properties of the root window (which you - can think of as the "main" window). You can also manually specify - individual windows that you want the properties of with + can think of as the "main" Xserver window). You can also manually + specify individual windows that you want the properties of with xprop -id <id> - if you know the id of the window in question (you can get this from the - _NET_CLIENT_STACKING property of the root window). Finally, it can also - be useful to add "-spy" (without the quotes) to the xprop command to get - it to continually monitor that window and report any changes to you. + if you know the id of the window in question. You can get the id of a + given window by either running xwininfo, e.g. + xwininfo | grep "Window id" | cut -f 4 -d ' ' + or by looking at the _NET_CLIENT_STACKING property of the root + window. Finally, it can also be useful to add "-spy" (without the + quotes) to the xprop command to get it to continually monitor that + window and report any changes to you. Debugging information Trying to run a window manager under a typical debugger, such as gdb, |