Method

GdkScreenget_active_window

deprecated: 3.22 since: 2.10

Declaration [src]

GdkWindow*
gdk_screen_get_active_window (
  GdkScreen* screen
)

Description [src]

Returns the screen’s currently active window.

On X11, this is done by inspecting the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property on the root window, as described in the Extended Window Manager Hints. If there is no currently currently active window, or the window manager does not support the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW hint, this function returns NULL.

On other platforms, this function may return NULL, depending on whether it is implementable on that platform.

The returned window should be unrefed using g_object_unref() when no longer needed.

Available since: 2.10

Deprecated since: 3.22

Please do not use it in newly written code.

Return value

Type: GdkWindow

The currently active window, or NULL.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The return value can be NULL.