Get the desktop/viewport of a window in enlightenment?

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Published on 2013-11-13T15:27:56Z Indexed on 2013/11/13 16:00 UTC
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Okay, so, given a XID of a window I need to get its desktop or viewport as well as the currently active one. Enlightenment does not seem to properly respond to wmctrl which leads to:

***@note:~ > wmctrl -lG
0x01e00002 -1 21   395  310  146  note Conky (note) # it places conkey wndows on -1 for some reason?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01c00002 -1 65   655  230  158  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01a00002 -1 25   215  230  182  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01800002 -1 25   550  310  110  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01600002 -1 685  145  230  120  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01400002 -1 1120 245  280  206  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01200002 -1 1095 35   230  186  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x01000002 -1 1145 470  250  266  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x00c00002 -1 40   34   230  182  note Conky (note)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
0x00e00029  0 0    0    1440 900  note ~ : bash – Konsole # desktop 2, fullscreen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
0x03a00060  0 505  231  899  642  note Downloads – 'Dolphin' # destkop 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
0x0480001a  0 206  222  958  526  note Lifelover - Kärlek - becksvart melankoli #desk 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                
0x034000e6  0 116  32   984  767  note clemctrl – Kate #desk 0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
0x02c01b78  0 309  314  549  520  note ************* # desk 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
0x04e00062  0 104  31   990  619  note XChat: *** @ Free / #*** (+Ccnt) #desk 1                                                                                                                                                                                                          
0x05c00112  0 22   35   1396 834  note StarCraft on Reddit - Chromium #desk 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
0x02c0f292  0 453  356  549  520  note *** #desk 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
0x02c000c0  0 860  216  557  645  note Buddy List # desk 1  

As can be seen, all windows are on desk 0 in wmctrl except conky windows. Furthermore the geometry-viewport trick also doesn't seem to work that works in some wm's, are there any other tricks to get on which viewport/desktop a window is? There has to be some way to get it right?

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