I'm trying to set focus to a window using python-wnck.
The only docs I could find related to this library are from https://developer.gnome.org/libwnck/stable/WnckWindow.html
Using some code I found on another question here at SO, I was able to search for windows using the window title, but I'm not sure how to get a window to focus.
From the above docs I found the function:
wnck_window_activate(WnckWindow *window, guint32 timestamp);
So in python I tried using this function like "window.activate(0)", but this appears to fail, the icon on my taskbar flashed but it doesn't get focus.
In the terminal I get the message:
(windowTest.py:17485): Wnck-WARNING: Received a timestamp of 0; window activation may not function properly
So I think I may actually need to put in a valid timestamp but not sure how to get this.
This is the code Im using sofar:
import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import wnck
import re
import sys
screen = wnck.screen_get_default()
while gtk.events_pending():
gtk.main_iteration()
titlePattern = re.compile('.*Geany.*')
windows = screen.get_windows()
for w in windows:
if titlePattern.match(w.get_name()):
print w.get_name()
w.activate(0)