Active window wayland

[n0tOdd]

Had some problems with the active window module not working with wayland on ubuntu, and using x11 fucked up video playback in kodi so i ended up with a new module to fix this

the module is slapped together in 2 minutes and i do not know python so it can probably be made in a better way but it is what it is

The module uses this gnome extension
https://github.com/flexagoon/focused-window-dbus

"""Gets the active window"""
from lnxlink.modules.scripts.helpers import import_install_package
import subprocess
import ast



class Addon:
    """Addon module"""

    def __init__(self, lnxlink):
        """Setup addon"""
        self.name = "Active Window"
        self.lnxlink = lnxlink


    def exposed_controls(self):
        """Exposes to home assistant"""
        return {
            "Active Window": {
                "type": "sensor",
                "icon": "mdi:book-open-page-variant",
            },
        }

    def get_info(self):
        """Gather information from the system"""
        app_command = ("gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/shell/extensions/FocusedWindow --method org.gnome.shell.extensions.FocusedWindow.Get")
        app_process = subprocess.Popen(app_command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        app_retval = app_process.stdout.read()
        app_retcode = app_process.wait()

        app_tuple_string = app_retval.decode('utf-8').strip()
        x = app_tuple_string.split(":")
        title = x[1].replace("\"","")
        title = title.replace(",wm_class","")
        return title

[bkbilly]

Thank you for this custom module, but could you explain further what is the issue with the current active_window module?

PS: The gdbus command returns a json with a few issues. I am just writing it as a suggestion how I would read the output:

import json
title = json.loads(app_retval.strip("(),'"))["title"]

[n0tOdd]

With wayland enabled on ubuntu 24.04 i dont get anything from the current active window

this is the result from default active_window

this is with my module

I tried to apply your json fix for reading it but i always get this error here

Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]:     return _default_decoder.decode(s)
Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]:            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]:     raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
Aug 31 15:46:53 n0tDesktop lnxlink[114287]: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 476 (char 475)