On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:11:22PM -0700, Newell Jensen wrote:
> > Is there a way to embed/nest other xwindow guit apps within a top
> level
> > window in pygtk? I have been searching all over and have not figured
> out
> > how to do this.
> > Thanks.
>
> The real problem with doing this is that if you don't have some sort
> of cooperation from the embedded window, then life is Difficult. For
> instance, if you want the embedded window to receive keystroke events,
> how are you going to arrange for it to get focus? (Your answer will
> involve details of the X core protocol, and the ICCCM window manager
> spec.)
>
> But anyway, there are two basic things you can do:
> -- if the app you want to embed is designed to be embedded, you just
> need to give it the XID of the window where you want it to live.
> Xephyr, for instance, has an argument "-parent", which you would
> use like:
> window = gtk.gdk.Window(myparent, ...)
> spawn(["Xephyr", "-parent", str(window.xid)])
> -- if you want to just grab some other app's window and jam it into
> your app, then you first need to figure out the XID of *that*
> window ("xwininfo" will do this, for instance), then do something
> like
> win = gtk.gdk.window_foreign_new(the_xid)
> win.reparent(my_window)
>
> But your best bet is still probably to find another approach.
>
> -- Nathaniel
I was thinking of using DBus so that the apps could talk to each other. The
apps I want to use are GTK so it looks like sockets and plugs will do the
trick (I haven't actually implemented this though, just going off of what I
read).
>
>
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