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Old 12-01-2009
Maximizing X window without Window Switcher
Hi everyone!

I have a strange situation. I'm running an NX remote Gnome desktop session. On the remote machine, there is a whole load of unsaved data in a window. A problem that I've been having with this NX session is that I can't load Gnome Applets, including the Window Switcher. So.. when I minimise something, I can't bring it back. So far, that's never been a problem, but now I minimised something I really needed.

Now, solving the "can't add Gnome Applets" is a problem I can solve in time (it's a known issue). But right now I'm looking for options to restore/maxmise my window so I can save my data! Most key-combos are not captured by the NX client, so I can't Alt-Tab or Alt-Ctrl-D, although other combinations may work?

So - is there any way I can unminimise a window, say, from the command line? Seems unlikely, but possible!

Is there any way to work in a windowing environment that doesn't have a Window Switcher Applet?

I can disconnect from the session and reconnect but can't reset my remote X session (or I'll lose my data :S).

Thanks!

---------- Post updated 12-01-09 at 09:23 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-30-09 at 10:05 PM ----------

Success! I remapped the alt-tab in the client VM Gnome to change Alt-Tab to Alt-A and used that, which wasn't grabbed by the host.
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Gnome(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  Gnome(3)

NAME

       Gnome - Perl module for the Gnome libraries

SYNOPSIS

	       use Gnome;
	       Gnome->init('myapp');
	       my $app = new Gnome::App("myapp", "myapp window title");
	       $app->create_menus({type => 'subtree', label => '_File',
		       subtree => [
		       ['item', '_Quit', undef, sub {exit}, 'stock', 'Quit'],
	       ]});
	       my $canvas = new Gnome::Canvas;
	       $canvas->set_scroll_region(0, 0, 300, 300);
	       $canvas->set_usize(300, 300);
	       $canvas->root->new($canvas->root, 'Rect',
		       x1 => 10, y1 => 10, x2 => 150, y2 => 250,
		       fill_color => '#0f0ef2', outline_color => 'black');
	       $app->set_contents($canvas);
	       $app->show_all;
	       Gtk->main;

DESCRIPTION

       The Gtk module allows Perl access to the widgets and other facilities in the Gnome libraries. You can find more information about Gnome on
       http://www.gnome.org.  The Perl binding tries to follow the C interface as much as possible, providing at the same time a fully object ori-
       ented interface and Perl-style calling conventions.

       You will find the reference documentation for the Gnome module in the "Gnome::reference" manpage. More information can be found on
       http://gtkperl.org.

AUTHOR

       Kenneth Albanowski, Paolo Molaro

SEE ALSO

       perl(1), Gtk(3pm), Gtk::reference(3pm), Gnome::reference(3pm)

perl v5.8.0							    2001-06-26								  Gnome(3)