Signaling to an other process to minimize it's window
lazarus / 32-Linux

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CC · 2015-12-14 13:02

Hi,

Since I could not find any  I am trying to create  a launcher  similar
to the  Windows7 tray to be  used with LXDE/ Lubuntu. If anyone knows
an exisitng solution please point me to the right direction.


TProcess provides the functionality to start and close processes, but
I also need a way to have them perform the basic window commands like
minimize, restore ... close, possibly kill the process.

Any help is appreciated.

CC

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CC · 2015-12-14 16:08

The core of the problem is that we have the process handle and we need
to get the window handle, which is the  message target.

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guest58172 · 2015-12-14 20:01

Hi, I don't know if it will help but I think that X11 provides the
functionality you're looking at

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151407/how-to-get-an-x11-window-
from-a-process-id
- https://wikigurus.com/Article/Show/90498/How-to-get-an-X11-Window-
from-a-Process-ID

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CC · 2015-12-15 07:35

BBasile

This seems to be the solution.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

Now I need to figure out how to call this  from  the pascal code,
which I have no experience with when it comes to C. I can think of a
few ways though, like

 - compling a .so with a c compliler
 - fpgui might have  what is needed to migrate the  C code to pascal
 ...

CC

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avra · 2015-12-15 08:45

Quote from: CC on December 14, 2015, 02:02:50 pmSince I could not find
any  I am trying to create  a launcher  similar to the  Windows7 tray
to be  used with LXDE/ Lubuntu. If anyone knows an exisitng solution
please point me to the right direction.There is a full windows manager
that you might want to look at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Free_Pascal_Window_Manager