// Example get-active-window reads the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property of the root // window and uses the result (a window id) to get the name of the window. package main import ( "fmt" "log" "github.com/jezek/xgb" "github.com/jezek/xgb/xproto" ) func main() { X, err := xgb.NewConn() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Get the window id of the root window. setup := xproto.Setup(X) root := setup.DefaultScreen(X).Root // Get the atom id (i.e., intern an atom) of "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW". aname := "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" activeAtom, err := xproto.InternAtom(X, true, uint16(len(aname)), aname).Reply() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Get the atom id (i.e., intern an atom) of "_NET_WM_NAME". aname = "_NET_WM_NAME" nameAtom, err := xproto.InternAtom(X, true, uint16(len(aname)), aname).Reply() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Get the actual value of _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW. // Note that 'reply.Value' is just a slice of bytes, so we use an // XGB helper function, 'Get32', to pull an unsigned 32-bit integer out // of the byte slice. We then convert it to an X resource id so it can // be used to get the name of the window in the next GetProperty request. reply, err := xproto.GetProperty(X, false, root, activeAtom.Atom, xproto.GetPropertyTypeAny, 0, (1<<32)-1).Reply() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } windowId := xproto.Window(xgb.Get32(reply.Value)) fmt.Printf("Active window id: %X\n", windowId) // Now get the value of _NET_WM_NAME for the active window. // Note that this time, we simply convert the resulting byte slice, // reply.Value, to a string. reply, err = xproto.GetProperty(X, false, windowId, nameAtom.Atom, xproto.GetPropertyTypeAny, 0, (1<<32)-1).Reply() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Printf("Active window name: %s\n", string(reply.Value)) }