arbtt 0.6 and xmonad: no windows list?

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Timothee,

Am Sonntag, den 20.02.2011, 17:24 -0600 schrieb Timothee BESSET:
> Hello,
> 
> If I use xmonad as my window manager (http://xmonad.org/), arbtt is
> not collecting any active windows information:
> 
> ..
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:19:50.706574 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 261}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:20:50.788981 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 11928}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:21:50.869605 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 26}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:22:50.949739 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 19}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:23:51.030388 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 29}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:24:51.109929 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 0}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:25:51.190305 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 3966}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:26:51.271169 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 816}}
> TimeLogEntry {tlTime = 2011-02-20 03:27:51.373603 UTC, tlRate = 60000,
> tlData = CaptureData {cWindows = [], cLastActivity = 121}}
> ..
> 
> When I start arbtt-capture, I also receive the following message:
> 
> arbtt: ERROR: No _NET_CLIENT_LIST set for the root window
> 
> Is that the cause of the problem, and how do I fix it?

it sounds as if might not be using the EWMH extension to xmonad, which
is required to make xmonad announce the list of windows in a canonical
way. Please try again with the EWMH functionality enabled:
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-EwmhDesktops.html

Greetings,
Joachim

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