[Qt-interest] GUI Application List?

[Arnold Krille]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 00:36:17 Ben Axelrod wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get the list of currently running GUI applications
> on Linux programmatically?  (Note: I do not mean ps, although I may have to
> resort to that).  I imagine there must be some way to poke the window
> manager for this info.  I am doing this through Qt, so if there is a
> cross-platform way to do this, that would be best.  But I am focusing on
> Linux for now.

Why???

Do you want to close apps that are not yours?

Who tells you that there aren't any other X-sessions running?
Who tells you that the "windows" you encounter aren't Xnest/Xephyr/vnc windows 
which in turn have apps running in them (local or remote)?

This is really another of the strange requests and I would like to understand 
_why_ you want to do that.

Arnold
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