How I built native Wayland window tracking across Hyprland, GNOME and KDE in C++23
The article discusses the challenges of tracking active windows on Wayland due to the lack of a unified API. It details the author's implementation of a solution for three popular Wayland compositors: Hyprland, GNOME, and KDE. Each compositor presents unique obstacles, requiring different approaches to achieve reliable window tracking.
- ▪Hyprland provides a straightforward IPC socket and CLI tool for retrieving the active window as JSON.
- ▪GNOME lacks an official API, necessitating the use of a shell extension to access the active window information.
- ▪KDE's KWin scripting requires a workaround involving JavaScript injection and scraping output from the system journal.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3932680) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Plexescor (Abhijot Singh) Posted on May 16 How I built native Wayland window tracking across Hyprland, GNOME and KDE in C++23 #cpp #linux #wayland #productivity If you've ever tried to get the currently focused window on Wayland, you know it's a mess. There's no unified API. Every compositor does it differently. X11 had _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and everyone just used that.
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