How to get the list of open windows from xserver
Question
Anyone got an idea how to get from an Xserver the list of all open windows?
Solution
From the CLI you can use
xwininfo -tree -root
If you need to do this within your own code then you need to use the XQueryTree
function from the Xlib
library.
OTHER TIPS
You can also take a look at the _NET_CLIENT_LIST
value of the root window. This is set by most modern window managers:
xprop -root|grep ^_NET_CLIENT_LIST
That value can easily be obtained programmatically, see your Xlib documentation!
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