On Thursday 03 February 2005 08:51, Markus Tacker wrote:
> Hoi List,
>
> I just want KDE to add the current date an time to my active window's
> title bar.
>
> Is this possible and how do i do it?
Well, a cron script and dcop should be able to do it, but not elegantly. I
couldn't find an easy way to determine which window is active, but you can
query indivudual windows easily enough:
esben@spurv mydvd $ sleep 3; dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' isActiveWindow
true
esben@spurv mydvd $ sleep 3; dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' isActiveWindow
false
esben@spurv mydvd $
And setting the caption to include the current timestamp is easy as 1-2-3:
Get caption for kmail-mainwindow#1:
$ dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' caption
Set caption for kmail-mainwindow#1
$ dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' setCaption "My new caption"
Set caption to current date
$ dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' setCaption $(date -u)
Append current date to caption:
$ dcop kmail 'kmail-mainwindow#1' setCaption "$(dcop kmail
'kmail-mainwindow#1' caption) $(date -u)"
If you are up for it, it should be doable.
Cute idea, though. Consider adding it as a feature request to KWin.
--
regards. Esben
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