arbtt 0.6 and xmonad: no windows list?

[Timothee BESSET]

That did the trick, thanks!

TTimo

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 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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