Window Title and App Name Retrieval Fails with _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW in copy/paste buffer

[Joseph Lisee]

I have been tinkering with this cool little application and while examining the shell commands I had copied "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" placing into my cut and paste buffer, and the output of "xprop -root". This in turn caused the running instance of the program to fail because the awk expression matched the "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" listed in the CUT_BUFFER. The patch just adds "^" to the front so it makes sure to match the beginning of the line, pulling out the right info.

[j0rd (jordan-gocubeco)]

I noticed the same thing.

You can fix it with a grep -v

xprop -id `xprop -root | grep -v CUT_BUFFER | awk '/_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW/ {print $5; exit;}'`...

Of course this will then break, if your window title happens to be CUT_BUFFER, so you really can't win :)

[Joseph Lisee (jlisee)]

Well the patch provides a fix which works even when CUT_BUFFER is a window title, so we do win.