<div dir="auto"><div>Ok what would be a reliable way of doing this.</div><div dir="auto"> <div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 14:58 Carsten Haitzler <<a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com">raster@rasterman.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:06:36 +0300 Riza Dindir <<a href="mailto:riza.dindir@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">riza.dindir@gmail.com</a>> said: > I ended up giving that xterm a distinct title. Using "xterm -T > <some-distinct-title>". Then with the xdotool could find its id "xdotool > search -name <some-distinct-title>". very unreliable. title may be changed at any point before or after window creation... you're asking for a race condition here. > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM Carsten Haitzler <<a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">raster@rasterman.com</a>> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:53:39 +0300 Riza Dindir <<a href="mailto:riza.dindir@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">riza.dindir@gmail.com</a>> > > said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am starting xterm in my xinitrc. Is it possible to get the window id of > > > that xterm? > > > > > > Regards > > > > echo $WINDOWID > > > > (in the xterm itself). > > > > But I suspect this is not what you want... and no - there is no reliable > > way of > > getting a window id from some app you ran - the window ID is runtime > > assigned > > and can be anything. An app can open multiple windows (and often creates > > invisible windows you never see and sub windows etc. > > > > A large number of apps will set a _NET_WM_PID property on the window with > > the > > PID of the process that created the window - but not all. xterm does do > > this. > > Apps may set the WM_COMMAND property with the command that launched them > > (and > > any arguments). WM_CLASS may provide some hints as to the app that owns the > > window. you might have to follow the breadcrumbs and look at the window id > > referenced by WM_CLIENT_LEADER to get some of these properties. > > > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > Carsten Haitzler - <a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">raster@rasterman.com</a> > > > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - <a href="mailto:raster@rasterman.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">raster@rasterman.com</a> </blockquote></div></div></div>