Op 01/15/2018 om 10:18 PM schreef sandmanbig: > I am trying to write a global menu bar app so that I can learn how > they work. I know how to obtain the active window, but according to > the Xembed spec, the client (the app that has the menubar) creates a > GtkPlug and places the widget into that plug. Be aware that your app will be limited to X and will most likely never run on wayland. > My question is, how do I tell process B that I want to embed its > menubar using GtkSocket and GtkPlug in process A? I have found a > handful of articles saying how to embed an entire app into a window, > but I have not been able to find anything about how to embed a certain > widget. One approach is calling the app to be plugged into the socket with a command-line argument (eg --socket-id) . Another would be to set an environment variable but that is a bit ugly imho. ~infirit _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
