DrawingArea Cannot Get XID

Question

I have the following Python 2.7/PyGObject 3.0/PyGST 0.10 module:

from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, GdkPixbuf
import pango
import pygst
pygst.require(\'0.10         


        

Answer 1

(Reprinted from GNOME PyGObject 3 Bug Report 663360. Answer credit goes to Timo Vanwynsberghe).

There are a couple of things to note: - the drawingarea has to be realised before you can get its GdkWindow - apparently, you can't get the window property directly - you need to import GdkX11 for the xid method

With this in mind, here is a minimal working example:

from gi.repository import GdkX11, Gtk

class App:
    def __init__(self):
        win = Gtk.Window()
        win.resize(400, 400)
        win.connect('delete-event', Gtk.main_quit)

        da = Gtk.DrawingArea()
        win.add(da)
        win.show_all()

        print da.get_property('window').get_xid()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    App()
    Gtk.main()