Bug 84348

Summary: xwininfo -id .. gives '0' for Relative upper-left X: and Y: on Unity in Ubuntu 14.04 for any window
Product: xorg Reporter: Colin Keenan <colinnkeenan>
Component: App/xwininfoAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: mail
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Colin Keenan 2014-09-26 03:32:32 UTC 
xwininfo -id $(xdotool getactivewindow)

should give a lot of information about the active window, including the relative number of pixels between the X window and the out edge of a decoration. It works fine in Xfce under Arch Linux, but people using my scripts have complained that it doesn't work under Ubuntu 14.04 Unity, and just reports:

Relative upper-left X:  0  
Relative upper-left Y:  0

For any window even though they do have a 28 pixel title bar and 1 px borders on sides and bottom. I got that information from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Theming, which probably also has enough information for whoever works on this to get xwininfo properly determine the Relative upper-left X and Y numbers. They will almost always be 28 and 1, but could have been changed by following the instructions on that link.
Comment 1 Colin Keenan 2014-09-26 14:37:50 UTC 
The information I needed from xwininfo Relative information is available from:

xprop _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS --xid=$(xdotool getactivewindow)

So, however that is working, seems like it should work the same in xwininfo.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-10 20:36:12 UTC 
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