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Script using xprop and grep to look for a provided (as cmd-line argument) WM_CLASS. The script identifies a window which has a grandparent with 2 children somewhere in it's tree.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# The script is looking for a window with a given WM_CLASS property. The window | |
# will be attached to the root node (R in the graph below), the root note is | |
# what you get from 'xprop -root'. There are two different types of windows with | |
# the same WM_CLASS (Q and W) but their tree structures are different. However, | |
# the tree structure of the two windows are different as seen in the graph | |
# below. | |
# | |
# R | |
# / \ | |
# A Y | |
# /\ \ | |
# B C X | |
# \ \ | |
# Q W | |
# | |
# To run the script 'xprop' and 'xwininfo' must be installed. | |
# | |
# NOTE: This script will not work if a window is not brought to top when it is | |
# created. | |
class_name=$1 | |
# regex for extracting hex id's | |
grep_id='0[xX][a-zA-Z0-9]\{7\}' | |
## | |
# Echos the id of the parent to the window with id win_id | |
# $1 = win_id | |
function grep_parent_id { | |
local result="`xwininfo -tree -id $1 | grep 'Parent window id:' | grep -o $grep_id`" | |
echo "$result" | |
} | |
# for every change in the root window's _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property, which | |
# is supposed to hold the currently active window (I believe this depends on the WM) | |
# note that the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW event will be triggered if a window that is already | |
# open is brought to top. | |
xprop -spy -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | grep --line-buffered -o $grep_id | | |
while read -r id; do | |
class="`xprop -id $id WM_CLASS | grep $class_name`" | |
if [ -n "$class" ]; then | |
parent_id=$(grep_parent_id $id) | |
grand_parent_id=$(grep_parent_id $parent_id) | |
grand_parent_tree="`xwininfo -id $grand_parent_id -tree`" | |
# If the the grand_parent has two children we have found window Q | |
tree_check="`grep -o '2 children:' <<< $grand_parent_tree`" | |
if [ -z "$tree_check" ]; then | |
echo "Found window (W), it has ID: $id" | |
# here we could do something awesome ;) | |
# if we want to keep track on window W we can spy on it until | |
# it's closed. | |
xprop -spy -id $id > /dev/null 2>&1 | |
echo "No more window to listen to" | |
else | |
echo "Do some thing cool with: $id or start some awseome command" | |
fi | |
fi | |
done |
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