probonopd

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

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As 2024 is winding down:

mgalgs

# Print the name and bounding box (x1, y1, x2, y2) for the active window in
# a loop.

import time
from collections import namedtuple

import Xlib
import Xlib.display

ssokolow

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""python-xlib example which reacts to changing the active window/title.

Requires:
- Python
- python-xlib

Tested with Python 2.x because my Kubuntu 14.04 doesn't come with python-xlib
for Python 3.x.