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Full Discussion: Wildcard with xdotool
Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Wildcard with xdotool Post 303031750 by bakunin on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 09:09:04 AM
Old 03-05-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by drew77
xdotool selectwindow activates a moveable box that you then position over the window to gets it id.

So it won't work in a script.
OK, but how would that work at all in a script? If it doesn't work in a script at all then what is the point of trying to use it in a script? Or is it working differently in a script? Maybe by displaying a list of window IDs? And, if yes, will the output look like this:

Code:
xdotool selectwindow
16777957
16777958
16777959
16777960

or, rather, like this:

Code:
xdotool selectwindow
16777957 16777958 16777959 16777960

or completely different from that? That, btw., was the background of Don Craguns request to show the output. To answer all these (and maybe some additional) questions by providing a sample. I count 7 question marks i used above (two of them implied) - all of them unnecessary if you would have trusted Don to know what he does and treating his request as legitimate.

Quote:
Originally Posted by drew77
This is what happens if there is no window opened named No Window.

Code:
xdotool search --name "No Window"
andy@7_~/Downloads$

OK, please repeat this command for a non-existing window and add echo $? - in other words, please tell us the return code. If there is a non-zero return code in case no window is found (and a zero return code if there is a window found) logic could be based upon that.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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gnome-wm - Launches the user selected window manager for the GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

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