A friend of mine asked the question: "Is there a commandline utility that can bring a running application such as xmms to the foreground?" I wonder if it might be WM specific.
Montana Quiring wrote:
A friend of mine asked the question: "Is there a commandline utility that can bring a running application such as xmms to the foreground?" I wonder if it might be WM specific. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
I think there was one. Maybe you could look at the fg and bg commands. It's been a while since I've done it (around 15 years in fact). I wasn't able to find a man page for it in Ubuntu so I wonder how accurate my memory is.
Later Mike
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:58:05AM -0500, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Montana Quiring wrote:
A friend of mine asked the question: "Is there a commandline utility that can bring a running application such as xmms to the foreground?" I wonder if it might be WM specific.
I think there was one. Maybe you could look at the fg and bg commands. It's been a while since I've done it (around 15 years in fact). I wasn't able to find a man page for it in Ubuntu so I wonder how accurate my memory is.
fg and bg are for forgrounding and backgrounding jobs in the shell.
I think what you're looking for is wmctrl:
Description: control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager Wmctrl is a command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager (examples include Enlightenment, icewm, kwin, metacity, and sawfish).
Wmctrl provides command line access to almost all the features defined in the EWMH specification. For example it can maximize windows, make them sticky, set them to be always on top. It can switch and resize desktops and perform many other useful operations.
For instance, on my currently running desktop:
oin$ wmctrl -l 0x00c00003 -1 oin Top Panel 0x00c0002d -1 oin Bottom Panel 0x00e00021 -1 oin Desktop 0x0280001f 0 oin root@gto: ~ 0x02800f75 1 oin root@lemans: ~ 0x02802735 2 oin Terminal 0x02600023 3 oin Holly Cole - I Will Wait for You 0x02a00020 2 oin linux icccm raise command - Google Search 0x028048a9 0 oin root@oin: ~
To switch my current screen to RhythmBox, and raise it to foreground:
oin$ wmctrl -a "Holly Cole - I Will Wait for You"
Hope this helps.
Scott
Yes, that's what he was looking for. He sends his thanks from Australia. ;) ...and thanks everyone for being so helpful. -Montana
On 3/15/07, Scott Balneaves sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:58:05AM -0500, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Montana Quiring wrote:
A friend of mine asked the question: "Is there a commandline utility that can bring a running application such as xmms to the foreground?" I wonder if it might be WM specific.
I think there was one. Maybe you could look at the fg and bg commands. It's been a while since I've done it (around 15 years in fact). Iwasn't able to find a man page for it in Ubuntu so I wonder how accurate my memory is.
fg and bg are for forgrounding and backgrounding jobs in the shell.
I think what you're looking for is wmctrl:
Description: control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager Wmctrl is a command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager (examples include Enlightenment, icewm, kwin, metacity, and sawfish).
Wmctrl provides command line access to almost all the features defined in the EWMH specification. For example it can maximize windows, make them sticky, set them to be always on top. It can switch and resize desktops and perform many other useful operations.
For instance, on my currently running desktop:
oin$ wmctrl -l 0x00c00003 -1 oin Top Panel 0x00c0002d -1 oin Bottom Panel 0x00e00021 -1 oin Desktop 0x0280001f 0 oin root@gto: ~ 0x02800f75 1 oin root@lemans: ~ 0x02802735 2 oin Terminal 0x02600023 3 oin Holly Cole - I Will Wait for You 0x02a00020 2 oin linux icccm raise command - Google Search 0x028048a9 0 oin root@oin: ~
To switch my current screen to RhythmBox, and raise it to foreground:
oin$ wmctrl -a "Holly Cole - I Will Wait for You"
Hope this helps.
Scott
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