[openbox] [maybe OT] raise window from CLI

[Roman Bogorodskiy]

  Jorge Almeida wrote:

> My IDE for working with LaTeX is simply an xterm + gvim + a simple Makefile :)
> "make edit" will call gvim to edit a tex file, "make" will produce a
> pdf, "make view" will call evince to show the pdf file, etc. Now, when
> evince is already running the appropriate file (i.e., assuming that
> "make view" was already called), when "make" is run again an updated
> pdf file is produced (if necessary) and evince loads the updated pdf.
> Unfortunately, the evince window is behind other windows, and I have
> to raise it manually. It would be great to do it automatically, by
> adding some command to the Makefile at the "make" target. Is there any
> way to do it at all? I have no idea how to start looking for something
> like this...

You can do it using wmctrl:

http://tomas.styblo.name/wmctrl/

Roman Bogorodskiy
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