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I would like to programmatically be able to communicate with the Window Manager in Gnome 3, using D-Bus. The tasks I would like to accomplish are:

  • listening for new windows
  • get window flags (e.g. skip pager flag)
  • get X window IDs
  • maximise, minimise windows
  • raise, lower windows
  • hide windows The aim is to create an task-bar-like application.

I know of tools such as xdotools or wmctrl, but those are very thorough tools: there are no listeners to find out if new windows have been instantiated / mapped, the latte works with window title strings.

I also tried using python-xlib, but lack of documentation or too technical documentation have made it very difficult to achieve anything.

It seems D-Bus would be appropriate for such actions. Can I use D-Bus to do this, is there a way to do this using Python? Could you provide examples?

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  • check devilspie and devilspie2
    – zb'
    May 6, 2018 at 12:43

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You would need a D-Bus-to-X11 interface in order to do this. There is no such thing.

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  • Ok, so how do you listen to newly mapped windows, as with a new pop-up for instance? And what API would you use? Is a xdotool good enough to build a shell or do you need to use python-xlib perse?
    – neydroydrec
    Dec 23, 2011 at 8:48

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