Re: How to get the topmost window through xlib programming

Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Organization Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Karthik Ramamoorthy wrote:

>
>            Is there any option to get the topmost window or currently 
> active window through anu xlib API . Because i think, through 
> XQueryTree we can get all the Alive windows(windows that are not 
> closed) only. So is there any means to get the topmost window, also is 
> it possible to check whether the windowID that i am having is top most 
> window or not?


XGetInputFocus will tell you the window that currently holds the 
keyboard focus.  That is usually what you what when you ask for the 
"topmost window".

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Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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