Detect current virtual desktop

[Maciej Bliziñski]

Hello Pythonists,

I'd like to write for myself a tiny program that counts time spent on each
virtual desktop (in GNOME). In order to do that, I need my program to
detect the current virtual desktop. I've googled for it for about one hour
and couldn't find any solution. The closest thing I found is set of
tutorials: http://www.pygtk.org/articles.html Unfortunately, none of them
answers my questions:

How to detect current virtual desktop in GNOME? How to detect a virtual
desktop change?

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[Harald Karner]

Re: Detect current virtual desktop

Maciej Bliziñski wrote:

How to detect current virtual desktop in GNOME? How to detect a virtual
desktop change?
>

Take a look at http://wallpapoz.sourceforge.net/


Harald

[Maciej Bliziñski]

Re: Detect current virtual desktop

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:52:59 +0200, Harald Karner wrote:

Maciej Bliziñski wrote:

>How to detect current virtual desktop in GNOME? How to detect a virtual
>desktop change?
>>

Take a look at http://wallpapoz.sourceforge.net/

Harald, many thanks.

By the way, I have found the line of code I was interested in. It is
stunningly simple, just calls the xprop command:

os.popen('xprop -root _NET_CURRENT_DE SKTOP').read()

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