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Talkabout

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Registered: 2025-08-22

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Any way to listen to events?

Hi guys,

I am using XFCE4 on my QubesOS laptop and would like to add some logic when window focus changes. Is there a way to add a listener (bash, python...) so that I get notified when the focus changes to a different window?

Thanks!

ToZ

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Re: Any way to listen to events?

Hello and welcome.

Here are a couple of options:

• https://aweirdimagination.net/2020/08/1 … ve-window/

• https://github.com/eurora-labs/ferrous-focus

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Talkabout

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Registered: 2025-08-22

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Re: Any way to listen to events?

@ToZ thank you very much! Looks interesting and should cover my use case. Will report back if it works.

Added later 8 h 48 min 13 s:
@ToZ The solution in your first link works perfectly fine, thank you very much again!

Brenton

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Re: Any way to listen to events?

Не пробовал даже, очень интересно.