Is Wayland compatibility in the plans?

[NinjaTurtle007]

Are there plans to make this wonderful extension work on Wayland or are there any alternatives for it?

[johannesjo]

Theoretically yes. But unfortunately this either is not possible to achieve atm due to Wayland's limitations or I'm too stupid to find out how. I dug around the docs for quite a while, but was unable to find any angle how to tackle this problem and gave up. When Ubuntu finally moves to Wayland, I probably give it another go but until then the tool will only work with XWayland applications. I'm glad for any help and pull requests are very welcome of course.

[damianmoore]

Another route to achieving this, rather than communicating with Wayland, could be to connect to 'org.gnome.Shell' via DBus and listen to events happening there. I'm trying something similar but haven't had much luck yet.

[damianmoore]

I found this PR for a Python-based activity monitor quite interesting: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-window/pull/46/files

It appears once you have a Gnome Shell GObject (might be wrong terminology) you can get it to evaluate JS for you that can introspect the functions/data structures of Gnome Shell itself.