Question about X window control

[Jay Freeman]

OK, I found my own answer :). If anyone is interested, it works like this:

xanim has a command line option +Wid where id is a x window id number to use for display of the
animation.. So I did this:

import Tkinter

root = Tk()
root.overrideredirect(1)    # prevents the wm from putting a frame or title bar around the window
*giving me full screen video!*
root.geometry(640x480+0+0)  # sizes and locates it
wid = str(root.winfo_id())

then built my command string using wid.

Adios,

Jay

Jay Freeman wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> cgw at alum.mit.edu wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, this question doesn't have a lot to do with Python but I'll answer it
> > anyway.
> >
> > xanim has a -S option to control scaling and a -W option to control
> > window placement.  If you type "xanim --help" you'll see it all spelled
> > out in great detail.
>
> Thanks for replying, but neither of these is any help. Scaling is irrelevant, the anim is
> already the size I want it to be. And the +Wxnum and +Wynum parameters position the anim within
> the window, not the window within the desktop.
>
> What I was after on the Pyhton side of things is how to tell that window to maximize itself. I
> can get the pid of the xanim process, but where do I go from there (if anywhere)?
>
> Jay

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