How to get list opened windows in PyGTK or GTK in Ubuntu?

Question

How to get list opened windows in PyGTK or GTK or other programming language? in Ubuntu?

edit:

i want get list paths opened directories on

Answer 1

Parsing command line output is usually not the best way, you are dependent on that programs output not changing, which could vary from version or platfrom. Here is how to do it using Xlib:

import Xlib.display

screen = Xlib.display.Display().screen()
root_win = screen.root

window_names = []
for window in root_win.query_tree()._data['children']:
    window_name = window.get_wm_name()
    window_names.append(window_name)

print window_names

Note that this list will contain windows that you wouldn't normally classify as 'windows', but that doesn't matter for what you are trying to do.