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The window id for the particular popup window is different each time, so this scripts often does not work.


Is there a way I could use a wildcard ?


Ex. xdotool key --window 1677*.* alt+F4

or go through all the relevant window IDs and filter what I need and discard the rest.

This gives me the correct window id.

Code:

xdotool search --name "Error" > Window_IDs.txt

I just need it to substitute the value it gets for the 16777491 xdotool key --window 16777491 alt+F4

Code:

#!/bin/bash
    # xdotool selectwindow This determines the window id or 2nd method
    # xdotool search --name "Error"
    #
    # Does not work because for some reason, the window id is different every time ?
    xdotool key --window 16777491 alt+F4
    # 
    #16777782
    #16777491
    #16778087
     #

I have provided ALL the info that I think pertains to this help request.

Not even close...

When you type in the command xdotool selectwindow, exactly what output do you get? (Please put the response to this question in CODE tags.)

When you type in the command xdotool search --name "Error" what output do you get? (Please put the response to this question in CODE tags.)

Out of the apparently tens of millions of window IDs xdotool creates, how are we supposed to know which one is the one you're looking for?

You did not pay very good attention to my post.


-- The window id for the particular popup window is different each time, so this scripts often does not work.


So your 2 question are not relevant.

Presumably, according to you, those tools give you output that contains the window IDs you want. If that isn't relevant to getting the results you want, I have no idea how we can help you.

If you're unwilling to show us sample output produced by those commands, we have no way of knowing what the format of the output produced by those commands might be.

If you are just going to dismiss our questions as an unreasonable waste of your time, then any attempt on our part to help you is a waste of our time.

I'm am sorry that I wasted your time trying to help you. I won't make that mistake again.

The commands produce simple numbers as shown in my post.


I would think you would test my xdotools command to learn how it works. Maybe I should not have assumed that?

Code:

#16777782 #16777491 #16778087

When I do my best, but am criticized, I start to wonder if someone is really tried to help me or just complain.

I do not have access to an Ubuntu system. I do not have access to, nor do I have any desire to load, learn how to run, nor run xdotool when, as far as I know, I have no need to have or use xdotool (especially when you tell me that it doesn't work well).

I do, however, have over 45 years of experience using UNIX tools to solve all sorts of problems and I would love to help you learn how to extract the window ID number out of the output from an xdotool selectwindow or xdotool search --name "Error" command if you'll explain to me where the window ID number that you want appears in the output produced by those commands. Telling me that they only produce "simple numbers" without knowing how many simple numbers each of them produces nor which of those simple numbers is the one you want nor what separates those simple numbers in the output of those commands doesn't really tell me anything I can use to help you.

If you would actually show me the exact output produced by one of those commands and explain to me which of the simple numbers output by one or both of those programs is the one and only window ID that you want to use in a subsequent xdotool key --window "window_ID" command on that instance of that system, I'd be happy to help you learn how to do that. But, if you think it is my duty to buy an Ubuntu system, load xdotool on it, learn how to run xdotool and then explain how xdotool works to you; I'm sorry, but that is not my job, is not in my budget, and is not something I have any interest in doing.

I nearly fell out of my chair when I read your statement statement above.

Why would you assume that?

When people, especially the ones here with decades of hands on UNIX and Linux experience, ask you for information, you should provide the info they ask for without hesitation.

Most people with decades of experience have realized that the vast majority of user errors and issues are general and they can be solved by looking at the input and output of the system, the log files and the operating environment.

We find that most users with problems do not even read their only system log files and we need to ask them to look at their own log files, believe it or not (shocking!?) .

So, we don't need to install every tool and every operating system on the planet to help you, but you do need to provide the system information we request.

That's how it works.

So, please provide the information Don requested.

Thanks.