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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get X Window id from within Emacs?
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:25:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ed28refi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f16c72ea66f044590f3954e2b0d3ca42.support1@rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:52:13 +0300)

> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:52:13 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> 
> The standard shell commend `xwininfo' gives me the Window id, such as
> 0x2e000ac and then I can run shell command like `xdotool' to activate
> the Emacs window:
> 
> $ xwininfo 
> 
> xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
>           would like information by clicking the
>           mouse in that window.
> 
> xwininfo: Window id: 0x2e000ac "*shell* - GNU Emacs at lco2"
> 
> after switching to other workspace, then I can still do:
> 
> $ xdotool windowactivate 0x2e000ac
> 
> and I would return to Emacs X Window.
> 
> Is there a way to get the Window ID from within Emacs?

There's the window-id frame parameter, although I'm not sure it is
universally available.  Try

  M-: (frame-parameter nil 'window-id) RET



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-15 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-15 17:52 How to get X Window id from within Emacs? Jean Louis
2024-12-15 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-15 21:53   ` Jean Louis
2024-12-16  0:39   ` Po Lu
2024-12-16  5:20     ` Jean Louis
2024-12-15 19:00 ` Alain.Cochard
2024-12-15 21:57   ` Jean Louis

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