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What can I do with wmctrl command line tool?
A tool called wmctrl can do exactly that. wmctrl provides a command-line interface to standard window management tasks, so you can resize and move windows, change desktops, toggle sticky and rolled-up statuses on a window and much more, all from a shell script.
How to create a quake term using wmctrl?
To create a basic Quake Term, you just need a single wmctrl command: The -r option tells wmctrl the window title on which to act, and the -b option tells wmctrl either to add, remove or toggle up to two different window properties (in this case, the shaded state of my window).
What are the values of the argument in wmctrl?
The argument actually takes five integer values in a row—g,x,y,w,h—where g is the gravity of the window (usually put 0 here), x and y are the x and y coordinates for the top-left corner of the window, and w and h are the width and height, respectively.
What is the Wayland equivalent of XInput list?
Of course, xinput is an X.org application. What is the equivalent command for Wayland? (A GNOME GUI equivalent is acceptable.) You should be able to use sudo evemu-describe to list the input devices found in /dev/input/event*.
How to open a window in wmctrl-freedesktop.org?
Introduction 2. Show information about the window manager and about the environment. 3. List windows managed by the window manager. 4. List desktops. 5. Switch to the specified desktop. 6. Activate a window. 7. Close the window gracefully. 8. Move the window to the current desktop and activate it. 9. Move the window to the specified desktop. 10.
Is there a way to close window gracefully in wmctrl?
Close the window gracefully. TODO: With a tray-enabled application like KTorrent, closing it will minimize it to the tray. If it’s already in the tray, then -c won’t do anything. wmctrl doesn’t have an alternate close or a ‘kill’ command for this case.