[pygtk] how do I get a list of windows on my desktop?

[Giuseppe Penone]

you can take a look to the source code of http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:27, John Accoun <jsonacc at gmail.com> wrote:

> None of these work:
>
> ============================
> >>> gtk.gdk.window_get_toplevels()
> [<gtk.gdk.Window object at 0xb74339b4 (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c170)>]
>
> >>> gtk.gdk.window_get_toplevels()[0].get_children()
> []
> ============================
>
>
> ============================
> >>> d = gtk.gdk.DisplayManager()
> >>> d.get_default_display().get_screen(0).get_root_window().get_children()
> [<gtk.gdk.Window object at 0x89dcc84 (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c170)>,
> <gtk.gdk.Window object at 0x89dccac (GdkWindow at 0x8a4c0c0)>]
> ============================
>
> The second method returns two windows with no children, regardless the
> amount of windows I have on my desktop. Could anyone point me the
> right direction and explain why none of the above does what I want?
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