On 2022-06-28, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > On 2022-06-28 10:14:48 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 01:53:17PM +0000, visqa...@yahoo.com wrote: >> > so if i start uxterm or xterm, how do i find name using command? >> >> ps -p "$PPID" > > But note that you won't be able to tell the difference between > xterm and uxterm like that, since uxterm is just xterm using a > different resource class. "xprop -id $WINDOWID" gives additional > information, in particular WM_CLASS. >
This seems to work (without all the superfluous output of xprop ...) ps -p $(ps -p $$ -o ppid=) o args= curty@einstein:~$ ps -p $(ps -p $$ -o ppid=) o args= xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8 curty@einstein:~$ ps -p $(ps -p $$ -o ppid=) o args= xterm