On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:36:27AM +0100, Thomas Dean wrote:
> all the unwanted windows in the list. See the attached scripts. Does anyone
> know a solution for this? Is there an existing tool that lists all
> "visible" windows along with their id?
>
the ids of visible windows is stored in the _NET_CLIENT_LIST property of the
root window and can be accessed with "xprop -root _NET_CLIENT_LIST"
The followning script lets you select one with dmenu and then focus it:
#!/bin/bash
declare -i active_id
declare -i win_id
winlist=$(xprop -root _NET_CLIENT_LIST|cut -d "#" -f 2|tr "," " ")
count=$(echo $winlist|wc -w)
active_id=$(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW|awk -F' ' '{ print $NF }')
foo=$(for i in $winlist; do
win_id="${i}"
if [ $win_id -eq $active_id ]; then
focustag="*"
else
focustag=" "
fi
win_class=$(xprop -id ${win_id} WM_CLASS | cut -d'"' -f2)
win_title=$(xprop -id ${win_id} WM_NAME | cut -d'=' -f2-)
printf "%10.10s${focustag}| %60.60s | 0x%7.7x\n" "${win_class}"
"${win_title}" "${win_id}"
done |sort| dmenu -i -l $count)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
xdotool windowactivate $(echo $foo | awk -F'|' '{ print $NF }')
fi
