need equivalent of wmctrl -lpx

[aspiers]

wmctrl can list all visible windows across all desktops in one go, along with their window name, class, window id, pid, and desktop number:

$ wmctrl -lpx
0x01800003 -1 5733   xfdesktop.Xfdesktop   pacific Desktop
0x04200003 -1 6104   gkrellm.Gkrellm       pacific gkrellm
0x0520000b -1 6186   urxvt.URxvt           pacific watchlogs-system
0x01600004 -1 5732   xfce4-panel.Xfce4-panel  pacific xfce4-panel
0x05e00032  5 23702  skype.Skype           pacific Skype
0x01200047  0 26835  emacs.Emacs           pacific focus-emacs-frame
0x0500000b  1 4759   urxvt-256color.URxvt  pacific adam@pacific

This is very convenient for scripting.

[jordansissel]

There's probably room for a new xdotool command to do formatted (and/or json!) outputs some properties of any windows in the window stack. Thoughts?

Rough proposal:

xdotool selectwindow windowproperties id pid class

Would use selectwindow to have oyu click on a window, then this proposed 'windowproperties' command would output the id, pid, and window class for the window. This would also work with xdotool search ... windowproperties ... or something.

Thoughts?

[aspiers]

Yes, sounds good!