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February 13, 2012 21:32
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Use wmctrl to find a window or exec a command if window name not found.
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#!/usr/bin/perl | |
use strict; | |
use warnings; | |
my $debug = 1; | |
my $wmctrl = '/usr/bin/wmctrl'; | |
my $window_name = shift; | |
my $exec_command = shift; | |
print "Window name is $window_name\n" if $debug; | |
print "Exec command is $exec_command\n" if $debug; | |
open(WMDESKLIST, "$wmctrl -d |") or | |
die "could not open $wmctrl to find current desk: $!\n"; | |
my $desk; | |
while (my $line = <WMDESKLIST>) { | |
($desk) = split(/:/, $line); | |
if ($desk =~ /\*/) { | |
$desk =~ m/^(\d+)/; | |
$desk = $1; | |
last; | |
} | |
} | |
close(WMDESKLIST); | |
open(WMWINLIST, "$wmctrl -l |") or | |
die "could not open $wmctrl to find current window list: $!\n"; | |
my $win; | |
while (my $line = <WMWINLIST>) { | |
print $line if $debug; | |
if ($line =~ m^(0x[0-9a-f]+) [ -]\d+\s+(\w+([\w\.]+)?|N/A)\s+$window_name^) { | |
print "==> $line" if $debug; | |
$win = $1; | |
last; | |
} | |
} | |
close(WMWINLIST); | |
if (not defined $win) { | |
exec $exec_command; | |
} else { | |
exec "$wmctrl", "-i", "-R", $win; | |
} |
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