> > Hi. Ive written a small native interface that searches for a window given
> > it's name, and then sets the MWM and Gnome hints on that window (ie stay
> > on top, hide close button etc) Unfortunatly the search process is quite
> > slow - can anyone recommend a nice way to get ahold of the window
> > handle
> > directly?
>
> "Directly" meaning to ask the X server to find a window by name?
>
> I don't think so. You might want to track down the source to xwininfo (a
> standard X client -- should be in XFree86 distributions) to see how it
> finds a window by name, but I think it searches... and it doesn't take
> very long. The named windows are grandchildren of the root window, so
I meant getting the window handle directly from the innards of Java. The
current program has some code ripped directly from xprop which searches by
name, but it takes a good 3-4 sec on a remote X server.
-- Michael
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