How to Display Date and Time in the active window title?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 18:53, Rainer Wirtz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2005 13:29 schrieb Markus Tacker:
> > Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > > Not possible. Only way to do this is to modify the source code, but
> > > you have to be a programmer with C++ and KDE knowledge to do this.
> >
> >    Sigh. Expected that.
> >    I hoped there was a way with dcop to get the Window witch has the
> >    focus and change its title.
>
> Well, when you start kdcop and poke around a bit you will find that many
> (not all) apps have an interface "mainwindow" or
> "<appname>-MainWindow#1". These interfaces have methods "bool
> isActiveWindow()",  "QString caption()" and "void setCaption(QString
> caption)".
>
> There's a (c++) function DCOP::findObject() which allows you to use
> wildcards to find out which application and which interface is
> answering with "true" to the call to "bool isActiveWindow".
> So, IMO it is possible *without* modifying kde. It does not look however
> as if this DCOP::findObject() can be called from a script using dcop,

dcopfind can do this:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100405707531282&w=2

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum
www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
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