I am making a window tiling script using libwnck. I would like to detect when the user opens a new window in order to resize it. Here is the gist of my code so far:
import gi
gi.require_version("Wnck", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Wnck
screen = Wnck.Screen.get_default()
screen.force_update()
# Here I resize all windows in the current workspace using
# window.set_geometry
# The script ends here however I'd like it to continue forever
# and detect a "window opened event"
From the documentation it looks like there are virtual methods like do_window_opened
but I have no idea how to get it working in python.
Here is a working simple test code. Hope it can help you and is what you want.
import gi
gi.require_version('Wnck', '3.0')
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Wnck
from gi.repository import Gtk
def test_do_when_window_opened_simple():
Gtk.init([])
screen: Wnck.Screen = Wnck.Screen.get_default()
screen.force_update()
def do_window_opened(this_screen: Wnck.Screen, opened_window: Wnck.Window):
print('hello')
app: Wnck.Application = opened_window.get_application()
app_name = app.get_name()
print('app name -> ' + app_name)
print('window name -> ' + opened_window.get_name())
screen.connect('window-opened', do_window_opened)
Gtk.main()
if __name__ == '__main__':
test_do_when_window_opened_simple()
See also:
Please check the first comment of this link
Please check the example of this link, it's written in C though
Note: the Wnck.Screen object has a function named 'do_window_opened', but it's not implemented. I received an error message 'gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-invoke-error-quark: Class WnckScreen doesn't implement window_opened (1)' when trying to call it.