[Lazarus] Getting X Window handle ?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

zeljko wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 of November 2012 10:20:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
>>> I'd like such a function myself too, sometimes it is useful to access
>>> the *real* native window regardless of the widgetset you use (GTK, Qt,
>>> Carbon, etc).
>> Definitely agreed. In my case so that a program can disable the screen
>> saver whilst it's running using xdg-screensaver.
> 
> Maybe we can add LCLIntf.GetNativeHandle(Handle: HWND): PtrUInt ?

+1 here. I had to resort to calling xwininfo, since it was the only way 
I could be absolutely confident that the ID was always correct 
irrespective of the combination of wm/desktop and display manager.

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