<div dir="ltr">Great, thanx! </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Carsten Haitzler <<a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com" target="_blank">raster@rasterman.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 15 May 2015 13:19:44 +0300 Yaron Cohen-Tal <<a href="mailto:yaronct@gmail.com">yaronct@gmail.com</a>> said: > Hi, > > I'd like to be notified about "PropertyNotify" events of the root window, > for example to be notified when its "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" property is > changed. As I didn't create the root window, I don't know how to be > notified of events related to it, of if it's at all possible. XSelectInput(disp, window_id, PropertyChangeMask); (and OR (|) to the propertychangemask whatever other events you want to listen to. window_id would be the root window id. disp is your Display * handle. > Thanx, > Yaron. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) <a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a> </blockquote></div> </div>