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a few more inputs; daemonize
author drewp@bigasterisk.com
date Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:57:11 -0800
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import Xlib
import Xlib.display

_disp = None


def get_current_window_title():
    global _disp
    if _disp is None:
        _disp = Xlib.display.Display()
    window = _disp.get_input_focus().focus
    # get_wm_name returns '': https://github.com/python-xlib/python-xlib/issues/212
    return window.get_property(_disp.get_atom("WM_NAME"), _disp.get_atom("UTF8_STRING"), 0, 1024).value.decode('utf8')