@tiangolo/active-win

active-win

Get the title / window id / app name / process ID of the active window (macOS, Linux and Windows)

Install

$ npm install --save active-win

Usage

const activeWin = require('active-win');

activeWin().then(result => {
	console.log(result);
	/*
	{
		title: 'npm install',
		id: 54,
		app: 'Terminal',
		pid: 368
	}
	*/
});

API

activeWin()

Returns a Promise for the result Object.

activeWin.sync()

Returns the result Object.

Result

• title - Window title
• id - Window ID (in macOS and Linux)
• app - App owning the window
• pid - Process ID of the app owning the window

Operating system support

It works with macOS, Linux and Windows 7+.

Note: In Windows, there's no notion of a "Window ID". So, when used in Windows, it returns -1 in the id property of the object.

Related

• active-win-cli - CLI for this module

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus