[openbox] script to focus and raise window demanding attention

[Vaughn Dickson]

Thanks, I'll check them out. The script actually isn't that slow in daily
use, so I'm happy with it. Plus I've added on some extra tweaks so I can hit
W-r to go to the window needing attention, and then W-S-r to go back to the
original, even if I've viewed other windows in between.

On 27 February 2010 16:37, John Eikenberry <jae at zhar.net> wrote:

> 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
> > &#x0060; 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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