[openbox] Go to a program if it's already running

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:44:12 +0200
Antoine <antoine.vigouroux at numericable.fr> wrote:
| On 18/07/2013 19:43, Wujek Srujek wrote:
| > !/usr/bin/bash
| >
| > if [ "$#" -gt 1 ]; then
| >     echo "Has arguments, starting..."
| >     "$@" &
| >     exit
| > fi
| >
| > CMD="$1"
| > app="$(wmctrl -lx | grep "$CMD" | head -n 1)"
| > if [ -z "$app" ]; then
| >     echo "App not found, starting..."
| >     "$CMD" &
| > else
| >     id="$(echo $app | cut -f 1 -d ' ')"
| >     echo "Refocusing app..."
| >     wmctrl -i -R "$id"
| > fi
| >
| Thanks a lot. I had never heard of wmctrl, that's awesome.


There are a number of such programs, many like wmctrl are old and
no longer being developed.  The one that is in active development is
xdotool.

Here is a list...
  xwit          Modify Size Position, Iconification of windows.
                This fails with some applications.
  wmctrl        Modify Windows (and desktops) with wm like controls
                Each provide quite different sets of posible actions
  wmiface       A old KDE3-based window controller
  xdotool       Window modifaction but also X event generation
                (see Event Generators below)


This comes from a personal list of X windows software (started a very
long time ago)
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/X/progs.summary




  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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