[openbox] script to focus and raise window demanding attention

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:52:24 +0200
Vaughn Dickson <vaughnd at gmail.com> wrote:

| Bound to W-r:
| 
| #!/bin/bash
| activeWinIdLine=`xprop -root | grep _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW\(WINDOW\) `
| activeWinId="${activeWinIdLine:40}"
| 
| echo $activeWinId > ~/activeWinId
| 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
| 
| 
| Bound to W-S-r:
| 
| #!/bin/bash
| if [ -f ~/activeWinId ]; then
| 	origWinId=`cat ~/activeWinId`
| 	wmctrl -i -a $origWinId
| fi
| 
| 
I would make your grep a little more specific as I copyed and pasted a
line to try it and got two resulting lines!!!  One copy from a 'cut buffer'.

:::prompt:::> xprop -root | grep '_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)'
CUT_BUFFER0(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep '_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)'"
_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x1e00022

I suggest you add '^' so say it must be at the start of the line.

Also you can replace the grep with 'sed' to search and extract the
window ID at the same time...

:::prompt:::> xprop -root | sed -n '/^_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)/s/.\{40\}//p'
0x1e00022

That works much better!


As an alternative to wmctrl  you can also look at  xwit



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