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zmktmk
January 15th, 2010, 03:45 PM
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to raise (maximize) a window running some certain application (eg. firefox) with a gnome keyboard shortcut.
I know that some window managers (eg. xmonad) have the possibility to bind a "run or raise" action to a key, that raises a window with an app when it hasn't been launched, or launches it otherwise.
If you know any feature, tool that I could make use of, please help.
TIA,
Tomek
hariks0
January 15th, 2010, 04:18 PM
Hope you can use an icon in a dock for that.
stinkeye
January 15th, 2010, 07:56 PM
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to raise (maximize) a window running some certain application (eg. firefox) with a gnome keyboard shortcut.
I know that some window managers (eg. xmonad) have the possibility to bind a "run or raise" action to a key, that raises a window with an app when it hasn't been launched, or launches it otherwise.
If you know any feature, tool that I could make use of, please help.
TIA,
Tomek
wmctrl allows you to do various window manager actions from the command line. A useful feature is "wmctrl -a <str>", which will switch to a window containing the string <str> in the title. For example, to activate a firefox window, and start firefox if there is no such window, use the following command:
wmctrl -a Firefox || firefox
zmktmk
January 19th, 2010, 10:36 AM
wmctrl -a Firefox || firefox
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks a lot.
fbicknel
March 25th, 2011, 03:30 PM
Ok, folks... here's an interesting dilemma:
This solution worked perfectly one day, but now I have to wrap the command line in sh -c '...' to get it to work.
What changed, I wonder?
Here's what changed:
Upgraded this morning (snip from log attached)
Admittedly there might be a better thread for this, but I couldn't find one. It's more menu related than wmctrl, I would assume.
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