Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:59:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Tennis Smith cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin In-Reply-To: <001d01c424a1$aba6dab0$120a0a0a@amer.cisco.com> Message-ID: References: <001d01c424a1$aba6dab0$120a0a0a@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote: > Hi, > > What I would like to do is very simple (I hope): Determine which Win > applications are running and, if possible, what the names are in the > title bars. > > How best can that be done? I'd prefer to use TCL. > > TIA, > -Tennis The Unix way ("ps") will work. I'm sure you can invoke it from TCL via exec() (or, if you actually want to process the output, via open()). See "ps --help" for the appropriate command-line arguments. This won't give you the title bar info, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/