C++/Shell Integration

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:41:45PM +0100, Mubarak Aguye wrote:
>    Hi. I was wondering if there is a way of determining the title of the
>    current active window, and its x-y coordinates from within a C++
>    application, or even a standard Linux shell.

For the shell, you could use 'xwininfo'.
For C++, you would use XWindowAttributes and Properties.
http://www.x.org/docs/X11/xlib.pdf (Chapter 3)
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/

-- 
Dirk