Timeline for How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
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| Nov 20, 2024 at 10:04 | comment | added | Flimm | How can I copy some text from the "Windows" section? I would like to copy a window class that contains a long sequence of numbers in it. | |
| Nov 20, 2024 at 9:59 | comment | added | Flimm | To close the looking glass, click on one of the tabs ("Evaluator", "Windows"...), and then press the Escape button on your keyboard. | |
| Aug 27, 2024 at 20:25 | comment | added | keithzg | Yeah I don't have GNOME installed as a DE and I do not have this command. | |
| Feb 29, 2024 at 18:28 | comment | added | Brian Redbeard | Once the window is identified you can introspect the metadata on the GObject for subsequent development of Gnome3 plugins or programmatic control of the window. Also, you can switch to the "Evaluator" and use the REPL to reference the object. | |
| Feb 21, 2024 at 19:23 | comment | added | smido | So when I find my window, what can I do with it ? I couldn' find any commands to run, or even refering to selected window | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 16:34 | history | edited | Brian Redbeard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 1, 2021 at 16:32 | history | rollback | Brian Redbeard |
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| Apr 1, 2021 at 16:31 | history | edited | Brian Redbeard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2020 at 8:07 | comment | added | RichieHH | So how to use this from a shell in order to determine if a gui is running as wmctrl did? | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | czerny | So does this allow to find out the PID of process running the listed window? | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 0:15 | history | answered | Brian Redbeard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |