How do I obtain, and synchronize, a complete list of all X11 windows?

Question

I want to monitor all the open windows under X11. Currently, I\'m doing this as follows:

1. Initially walking the whole tree by recursively calling XQueryTree fro

Answer 1

Have a look at xwininfo.

You might also like xprop and xspy for getting more info.

Update: Yep. Try using xwininfo and -root with either -tree or -children to get all windows involved.

And changes can be tracked with xprop -spy.