[pygtk] Embedding external xwindow apps in top level window

[Newell Jensen]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:11:22PM -0700, Newell Jensen wrote:
> >    Is there a way to embed/nest other xwindow guit apps within a top
> level
> >    window in pygtk?  I have been searching all over and have not figured
> out
> >    how to do this.
> >    Thanks.
>
> The real problem with doing this is that if you don't have some sort
> of cooperation from the embedded window, then life is Difficult.  For
> instance, if you want the embedded window to receive keystroke events,
> how are you going to arrange for it to get focus?  (Your answer will
> involve details of the X core protocol, and the ICCCM window manager
> spec.)
>
> But anyway, there are two basic things you can do:
>  -- if the app you want to embed is designed to be embedded, you just
>     need to give it the XID of the window where you want it to live.
>     Xephyr, for instance, has an argument "-parent", which you would
>     use like:
>        window =3D gtk.gdk.Window(myparent, ...)
>        spawn(["Xephyr", "-parent", str(window.xid)])
>  -- if you want to just grab some other app's window and jam it into
>     your app, then you first need to figure out the XID of *that*
>     window ("xwininfo" will do this, for instance), then do something
>     like
>        win =3D gtk.gdk.window_foreign_new(the_xid)
>        win.reparent(my_window)
>
> But your best bet is still probably to find another approach.
>
> -- Nathaniel


I was thinking of using DBus so that the apps could talk to each other.  The
apps I want to use are GTK so it looks like sockets and plugs will do the
trick (I haven't actually implemented this though, just going off of what I
read).


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