Re: [STUMP] retrieve url of focused browser?

[Feng Shu]

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

> All this renewed activity has reminded me I have a few StumpWM utilities
> that I've been meaning to finish. One is an extension to emacs org-mode,
> letting StumpWM call in to the org-mode capture process.

I use org-capture with stumpwm too:

My stumpwm configure: https://github.com/tumashu/stumpwm-config
My emacs configure: https://github.com/tumashu/emacs-helper

Could you share your extension?


>
> One thing I'd really like to have working for that is the ability to
> extract a url from the focused web browser. From what I can tell, that
> information isn't present as part of the xlib window data. So it's
> sounding a bit iffy.
>
> Does anyone have any bright ideas in this direction? I'd be willing to
> write multiple browser-specific implementations, but I'm not even sure
> where to start. Perhaps sending a fake keypress to highlight the URL
> bar, and getting the x selection...?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric

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