#!/usr/bin/env python # Author: Andrew Shark # This script lists windows in kwin on wayland. It is useful, because wmctrl does not work on wayland. # I read journalctl because printing in kwin script is currently broken. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445058 # https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/706477/is-there-a-way-to-get-list-of-windows-on-kde-wayland - described this script here. import subprocess from datetime import datetime def get_list_of_windows(): datetime_now = datetime.now() script = "/home/chris/.dotfiles/scripts/kde-list-windows.js" reg_script_number = subprocess.run("dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin \ /Scripting org.kde.kwin.Scripting.loadScript \ string:" + script + " | awk 'END {print $2}'", capture_output=True, shell=True).stdout.decode().split("\n")[0] subprocess.run("dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin /" + reg_script_number + " org.kde.kwin.Script.run", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL) subprocess.run("dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin /" + reg_script_number + " org.kde.kwin.Script.stop", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL) # unregister number since = str(datetime_now) msg = subprocess.run("journalctl _COMM=kwin_wayland -o cat --since \"" + since + "\"", capture_output=True, shell=True).stdout.decode().rstrip().split("\n") msg = [el.lstrip("js: ") for el in msg] return msg print('\n'.join(get_list_of_windows()))