[PLUG] Odd WINE/Gnome/Windows program interaction

[Rogan Creswick]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tim Wescott <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to tell, under Gnome or Wine, where an application thinks
> it has it's windows open?

wmctrl is *probably* your best bet.

eg: to get a list of all windows open, and their geometry:

$ wmctrl -l -G
0x01200233  0 564  416  577  602                   gnuwestlake
Terminal - rcreswick at gnuwestlake: ~/src/xuggler-2.0
0x01800001  0 233  36   854  689                   gnuwestlake
myprint-version.PDF - Okular
0x00e00049  0 1299 33   1144 920                   gnuwestlake Inbox
for rcreswick at stottlerhenke.com - Thunderbird
.....

wmctrl will also let you close/move/resize/etc windows, but it's
capabilities are highly dependent on your windowmanager.  (It can ask
the WM to do things, but the WM can ignore it.)

In ubuntu, the wmctrl is in the wmctrl package.

--Rogan


>
> I've got a Windows app that I'm trying to run under Wine, and it seems
> to have lost track of where it's windows are.  Comments from the
> developer kind of obliquely point to this being an issue under Windows,
> too, so I'm not sure that it's specifically a Wine/Gnome problem other
> than maybe that environment offering more opportunities for confusing
> things.
>
> While I'm waiting for the developer to get back to me, I'm wondering if
> there's a log someplace that I can look in to see where the windows are
> going, and if there's any way that I can reach out and hook them back
> into the visible space.
>
> Thanks.
>
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