On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > | On 30 January 2012 21:28, Chris Siebenmann <c...@cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > | > ??Does anyone know if there exists a good command line tool for > | > listing either the window IDs or the window names of all windows > | > of a specific class (or better yet, set of classes)? Or is this > | > something that's better done with an fvwm module written in Perl > | > with fvwm-perllib[*]? > | > | xwininfo > | xprop
> At this point it might be useful to explain my overall motivation: I > want to put together something that lets me select xterm windows from > the keyboard based on their name, with name completion. My current plan > is to use dmenu for the window name completion (and a script around it > to then act on the window). But for this I need to feed the window names > into dmenu[*]. I think wmctrl might help. It doesn't come standard with X but you should be able to install it as a separate package. The command "wmctrl -l -x" will list all the windows managed by the window manager, and include their WM_CLASS classes. You could then grep on the required classes and get the window names. A bit of playing around got me this command line: wmctrl -l -x | grep -i rxvt | cut -b47- (note that I'm using rxvt rather than xterm for my terminals) K.A. -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.org> / \ | \_.--.*/ | <http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/> v | <http://kerravonsen.redbubble.com/> ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe
