How to find the application window

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I am writing a graphics library under XWindows, using the Xlib API.

I am looking for a clean way to get the XID of the main Window of the running application. I'd need a solution that doesn't know about the Windows Manager in use (Qt, GTK, Motif...), and only does Xlib calls.

One possibility could be to lookup the window tree by process ID. Any cleaner/simpler suggestion?

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Posted 22-Dec-11 3:28am

YvesDaoust

Updated 22-Dec-11 3:56am

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Albert Holguin 22-Dec-11 11:03am

Not sure if there's a simple way of doing that, each framework has its own way of searching for windows.

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