Script to open the messaging menu in Ubuntu, meant to be bound to a keybinding for easy keyboard access to the messaging menu. It currently uses xdotool to move the mouse to a hardcoded offset from the right edge of the unity panel of the active monitor. This could use some improvement with a utility that could actually search for the actual loc…

focus-messaging-menu

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# Copyright (C) 2013 Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@ubuntu.com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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list_panel_wid()
{
    xdotool search --onlyvisible --name 'unity-panel'
}

list_monitors()
{
    xrandr --current | awk '$2 == "connected" {print $3;}'
}

max()
{
    test "$1" -gt "$2" && echo $1 || echo $2;
}

min()
{
    test "$1" -lt "$2" && echo $1 || echo $2;
}

get_intersect_area()
{
    local r1_top=$1
    local r1_bottom=$2
    local r1_left=$3
    local r1_right=$4

    local r2_top=$5
    local r2_bottom=$6
    local r2_left=$7
    local r2_right=$8

    top=$(max $r1_top $r2_top)
    bottom=$(min $r1_bottom $r2_bottom)
    left=$(max $r1_left $r2_left)
    right=$(min $r1_right $r2_right)

    width=$(($right - $left))
    height=$(($bottom - $top))

    if [ $(min $width $height) -le 0 ]; then
        echo 0
    else
        echo $(($width * $height))
    fi
}

get_current_monitor()
{
    local WINDOW X Y WIDTH HEIGHT SCREEN
    eval "$(xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowgeometry --shell)"
    local window_top=$Y
    local window_bottom=$(($Y + $HEIGHT))
    local window_left=$X
    local window_right=$(($X + $WIDTH))


    list_monitors | while read line; do
        local width height x y
        IFS=x+ read width height x y <<EOF
$line
EOF
        local monitor_top=$y
        local monitor_bottom=$(($y + $height))
        local monitor_left=$x
        local monitor_right=$(($x + $width))

        local area=$(get_intersect_area \
            $monitor_top $monitor_bottom $monitor_left $monitor_right \
            $window_top $window_bottom $window_left $window_right)

        echo $area $line
    done | sort -nr | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'
}

get_panel_for_monitor()
{
    monitor=$1

    local mw mh mx my
    IFS=x+ read mw mh mx my <<EOF
$monitor
EOF

    list_panel_wid | while read panel; do
        local X Y
        eval $(xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $panel | grep -e ^X= -e ^Y=)
        if [ "$mx" -eq "$X" -a "$my" -eq "$Y" ]; then
            echo $panel
        fi
    done
}

get_icon_pos()
{
    local WINDOW X Y WIDTH HEIGHT SCREEN
    eval $(xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $panel)

    ix=$(($X + $WIDTH - 261))
    iy=$(($Y + ($HEIGHT / 2)))

    echo $ix $iy
}

monitor=$(get_current_monitor)
panel=$(get_panel_for_monitor $monitor)
read x y <<EOF
$(get_icon_pos $panel)
EOF
xdotool \
    mousemove $x $y \
    click 1