[openbox] [bit OT] Get focus window id?

Lukasz Grabowski graboluk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 14:56:08 EDT 2015


I use xdotool getactivewindow

(I think I had to upgrade xdotool to have it)

L

2015-10-26 18:24 GMT+00:00 Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org>:
> Is there a way to determine which window has the focus, from a script?
> I checked the old workhorse, wmctrl, but it doesn't seem capable of
> this.  There is the "-r :ACTIVE: " option, but it only works with the
> action subcommands, not with the listing.
>
> Thanks for any hints!
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