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Correct, that what happens universally across multiple installs (except one of my pcs does it right, not sure why there's a difference)

I open most of my files from scripts and for some reason every time I open a file in geany that way it opens a new instance of geany.

I'd rather it found an already open instance of geany and just...

I've landed on Skype for messaging between computers and various phones at work. It mainly works great,

but on one specific computer (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS) notifications for new chat messages on...

Here's what I have as a solution:



so as long as there's only one window open somewhere with the word "Skype" in the title I now get Skype popping up if I get a new message :)
(runs from a...

Ok, thanks for that. Here's what I've got working:


So theoretically I could monitor the folder that was in with inotifywait and trigger skype to pop up from there with a `wmctrl -a Skype`
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I want to monitor the notifications that happen on my computer to trigger a script when a certain app makes notifications.

The only way I can think of to do that is to monitor a notification...

Am I the only one who has this problem?

after upgrading to 22.04 I can no longer just start typing at the lock screen to unlock my computer. Yes to balk at having to reach over to the mouse to be able to enter my password is super lazy,...

Thanks, yes I use Clementine, but I'm looking for one that just stores its playlists *as M3U* natively so I don't have to keep track of the last time I exported vs any changes made on the phone...

Thanks for that. Looks interesting, but not really what I was hoping for.

I just want a linux desktop music player that can play m3u playlists and write changes back to those playlist files as I...

I sync my music between my phone and various computers.
My phone music app manages playlists by editing M3U files, and I can keep them in a playlist folder or in the main music folder and stores...

Actually, that would solve my first question (although I still like being able to do the same thing with a bash script like above)

However that does not solve my second problem: When a Pidgin...

Here's what ended up working for me (I wanted to force any new windows to raise)



Just wondering, in the case of a program like Pidgin, this method still doesn't work if there's a new message...

Thank you both! Yes, Claus7 is right - that's what I'm after. I'll try both and see what works better :)

How about just using the vanilla Ubuntu 18.04? I don't even know how to begin to search for that.

How would I automatically run a script when a new window opens?

Thanks,
Dave

I would like to be able to have a little area in the panel that I can write text to in a bash script, kind of like conky, but the advantage of using the panel is that its always visible.

Is this...

Thanks for the hint. I googled it with conky now and came up with this: change own_window_type to "override"

seems to be working so far. I'll update if I'm wrong.

Yes I am running conky. Should I post the config file?

(this is a repost - I originally had it in the wrong section)

Sometimes my keyboard shortcuts (native and custom both) don't work until I click something on the screen with the...

I think I posted this on the wrong section. I'll post it in general help

Sometimes my keyboard shortcuts don't work until I click something on the screen with the mouse, and then they work. Kind of defeats the purpose of having keyboard shortcuts, ha ha.

Any...

Yes, now that you explain it that way I see I should have figured out that's what was happening from previous info in this thread. Thanks for your patience and explanations - it was definitely...

Thought I should update that I found the solution:

I installed android-tools-adb, plugged in my phone, and at the Ubuntu terminal typed in "adb shell" and voila! I was basically at the terminal...

Thank you all so much, especially for vocx for the needed explanation :)

As you can probably tell I'm not a computer guy by profession, so I usually just google, cut and paste and see what...