[openbox] script to focus and raise window demanding attention

[John Eikenberry]

Vaughn Dickson wrote:

> I'm running Openbox with Gnome and windows demanding attention show
> in the taskbar with a yellow highlight, usually skype IMs or
> something. I've created the following bash script that I bind to a
> hotkey, but it's not very quick. Is there a better way? I'd also

Have you looked at devilspie or winwrangler? They might be able to do
something like this more efficiently though they are daemons, not something
that would be bound to a key.

http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
https://launchpad.net/winwrangler

> like to bind it to W-`, but it doesn't work. I've also tried
> ` and that chokes too.
> 
> for id in `wmctrl -l | cut -d " " -f 1`; do
>    xprop -id $id | grep "_NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION" 2>&1 > /dev/null
>    if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
>        wmctrl -i -a $id
>        exit 0
>    fi
> done
> exit 1
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
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