[pygtk] Wnck: Switching to and reporting current workspace (desktop) number.

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno dom, 07/03/2010 alle 09.00 +0100, Osmo Maatta ha scritto:
> Re-hello,
> 
> Yes, your code works fine.
> But the following code fails.
> The "self.attuale" print 0 for every loop.
> 
> # Again: This works only with Metacity or similar WM.
> import gtk, gobject, wnck
> import time
> 
> class Cambiatore(object):
>      def __init__(self):
>          self.screen= wnck.screen_get_default()
> 
>      def cambia(self, next_ws):
>          ws = self.screen.get_workspaces()[next_ws]
>          ws.activate(0)
> 
>          ws = self.screen.get_active_workspace()
>          actual = self.screen.get_workspace_index(ws)
>          print "self.attuale=", actual
> 
>          gtk.main_quit()
> 
> c = Cambiatore()
> for i in range(4):
>      gobject.idle_add(c.cambia, i)
>      gtk.main()
>      #gobject.timeout_add_seconds(1, c.cambia)
> 
> Why on earth we have to deal with event-loops to read or set desktop 
> values.

That's a nice question...

Pietro


> I should absolutely send a bomb to Wnck's mailing list!
> 
> // Moma
> 
> 
> On 03/06/2010 08:28 PM, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > http://lists.gulp.linux.it/pipermail/gulp/2009-September/035843.html
> >
> > That's in Italian, but I guess the code logic is quite understandable...
> > and works (you can verify by adding a print).
> >
> > If I recall correctly, I too at the time had problems that had to do
> > with the gtk main loop not running.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Pietro
> 
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