ActiveWindowX

ActiveWindowX is a gem to observe an active window on Linux (X Window System).

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_window_x'

And then execute:

$ apt-get install libx11-dev
$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_window_x

Usage

The following script observe the active window and it's title changing.

require 'active_window_x'

ActiveWindowX::EventListener.new do |e|
  puts "#{e.type}:\t#{e.window}"
end

execute:

$ ruby simple.rb
 # switch the active window or the browser tab!!
active_window:	#<ActiveWindowX::Window:0x7fd47d391e18>
title:	#<ActiveWindowX::Window:0x7fd47d391850>
title:	#<ActiveWindowX::Window:0x7fd47d391030>
active_window:	#<ActiveWindowX::Window:0x7fd47d390540>
active_window:	#<ActiveWindowX::Window:0x7fd47d38fc30>
...

and see other samples

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

ToDo

• See git grep TODO
• Accessor API for the window icons
• Setter to select event types for listening
• @continue setter to terminate graceful