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@arcsine/active-win
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Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, screens, owner, etc). Works on macOS, X11-based Desktops (Linux, BSD), Windows.
Forked from active-win, by Sindre Sorhus
Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, owner, etc)
Works on macOS, Windows and X11-based Desktops (Linux, BSD). Wayland support is missing.
$ npm install active-win
const activeWin = require('active-win');
(async () => {
console.log(await activeWin());
/*
{
title: 'Unicorns - Google Search',
id: 5762,
bounds: {
x: 0,
y: 0,
height: 900,
width: 1440
},
screens: [{
x: 0,
y: 0,
height: 920,
width: 1440,
index: 0
}],
owner: {
name: 'Google Chrome',
processId: 310,
bundleId: 'com.google.Chrome',
path: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
},
memoryUsage: 11015432
}
*/
})();
import * as activeWin from 'active-win';
...
console.log(await activeWin());
...
...
console.log(activeWin.sync());
...
Returns a Promise<Object>
with the result.
Returns an Object
with the result.
title
(string) - Window titleid
(number) - Window identifierbounds
(Object) - Window position and size
x
(number)y
(number)width
(number)height
(number)screens
(Array) - Screens that overlap with the window
x
(number)y
(number)width
(number)height
(number)index
(number) - Display indexowner
(Object) - App that owns the window
name
(string) - Name of the appprocessId
(number) - Process identifierbundleId
(string) - Bundle identifier (macOS only)path
(string) - Path to the app (macOS and Windows only)memoryUsage
(number) - Memory usage by the window (macOS only)It works on macOS, Windows 7+, and X11-based desktops (Linux, BSD).
Note: On Windows, there isn't a clear notion of a "Window ID". Instead it returns the memory address of the window "handle" in the id
property. That "handle" is unique per window, so it can be used to identify them. Read more….
MIT
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Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, screens, owner, etc). Works on macOS, X11-based Desktops (Linux, BSD), Windows.
The npm package @arcsine/active-win receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, @arcsine/active-win popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @arcsine/active-win demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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