Comments on: Doing a “Show Desktop” using Python’s libwnck bindings

By: mibus

mibus — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:15:26 +0000

You need to run force_update() on the screen before pulling anything from it. If you run that before get_windows() it all works OK! :)

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:15:07 +0000

Sugar ? what is ?

By: bj

bj — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:36:01 +0000

Manuel,

Trying to build sugar I presume? I’m looking for it as well.

By: Manuel Mazzuola

Manuel Mazzuola — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:58:39 +0000

Hi, where i can find tha API for the libwnck python module ??

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:26:57 +0000

Well, I the code provided by jiba. But, I got none windows:

leon@localhost ~/tmp_python $ python wm.max.py

[]

Why ? But, the “Show Desktop” code works.

By: jiba

jiba — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:05:17 +0000

mrben, sil: It seems that wnck can do that (or at least its API has the corresponding functions ;-)). It looks equivalent to devilspie, or slighly more detailed (e.g. for viewport).

It works ONLY if you have called gtk.main(), e.g. :

def run():
print wnck.screen_get_default().get_windows()
# do your job here
gtk.main_quit()

gobject.idle_add(run)
gtk.main()

By: sil

sil — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:25:49 +0000

mrben: wnck is an interface to the window manager, essentially. It’s what the pager uses to know where windows are and so on. I’m not sure if it lets you alter an existing window; devilspie does that, but I don’t know if it uses libwnck.

By: mrben

mrben — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:39:08 +0000

Interesting; I’d not seen wnck - does it allow you to show windows fullscreen without menus, etc?