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>> On UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you can think of a foreground job as one that is connected to a keyboard and a background job is one that is not connected to a keyboard at that time. <<

Thank...

@Chubler_XL--thank you for the idea

while pgrep --session 0 links

I ran that in both the Chrome and Links2 scripts, but the script does continue to spawn itself, with a maximum of three...

tail

In my searches about this original script, I had read about tail, but had not seen as clear an example as yours. That is, unfortunately, an issue with general googling. Before coming here, I...

#!/bin/sh
( sleep 1
while pgrep chrome
do xdotool search --name Chrome 2>/dev/null |
while read id
do xdotool set_window --name "Chrome" $id
done
...

#!/bin/sh
( while sleep 1; do
xdotool search --name Chrome 2>/dev/null | while read id; do
xdotool set_window --name "Chrome" $id
done
done) &
google-chrome-stable
kill -15 %1

Your...

I posted here, thinking that would probably be the way. But my scripting skills are not up to inventing such variables.

But I'm relieved that there isn't an obvious way to simply string those...

Hmm, then I'm still a little lost.

First script:

#!/bin/sh
while sleep 1; do
xdotool search --name Chrome 2>/dev/null | while read id; do
xdotool set_window --name "Chrome" $id
done...

Hey, that did it. Thank you, thank you.

Putting the kill command in the first script alleviates the need for separate kill script. With your help, I'm down to two scripts that successfully close...

Thank you for the quick replies and the suggestions for proper posting.

I'm unfamiliar with wrapper scripts, but in theory, is this what I'm looking for:

#!/bin/bash...

Running Xubuntu 16.04 with shell version "GNU bash, version 4.3.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)," I have a working script that consistently renames a Chrome window:

#!/bin/sh
while sleep 1;...