You mean sudo -u household wmctrl...? -Denis
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:39 PM, wes <[email protected]> wrote: > try sudo wmctrl, the same way you're doing sudo zenity. > > -wes > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > I have a script which runs daily via anacron. I want the script to > launch > > a zenity window to notify the user, so I issue the command wmctrl -k on > > before zenity and wmctrl - off after. This is supposed to minimize all > > open windows to ensure that the zenity window will be visible. I have a > > test script to show that it works. Both scripts are owned by root, but > > editable by me. I have run the test script from a command line login > > using sudo, as well as from a Gnome terminal. The test script behaves as > > intended--the desktop is cleared of all open windows. I inserted a test > > zenity window at the beginning of the real script to verity that when > > launched by anacron it would behave the same way. It does not! It does > > not minimize open windows, but the zenity window does appear on top of > the > > open windows. > > > > What is different about the anacron launch? I have been monkeying with > > this thing for quite a while. I tried wmctrl -R but that did not behave > as > > I had hoped. wmctrl -k does what I want except when anacron is doing the > > launching. > > > > Ideas? > > > > -Denis > > > > Test script: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > # test to get zenity to work when script is not called from an X window > > # change to a non-X login (^ alt F2), call this w/sudo, then go back to X > > (^ alt F7) > > # to see if a zenity window shows up. > > # feb 5 2018 the above worked--all open windows minimized. > > > > > > Notification () { > > # pass title, text of notice, and timeout as 3 parameters > > TITLE=$1; MSG=$2; TIMOUT=$3 > > wmctrl -k on > > sudo -u household zenity --question --title="$TITLE" --text="$MSG" > > --timeout="$TIMOUT" > > RETRNCODE=$? > > wmctrl -k off > > return $RETRNCODE # return codes: 0 = YES, 1 = cancel, 5 = timeout > > } > > > > sleep 30 > > > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > # test of launch of zenity > > Notification "Test of zenity (backup_checksh)" "This should minimize all > > open windows." 20 > > # remove when satisfied that launch works. > > > > Top of real script: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > Notification () { > > # pass title, text of notice, and timeout as 3 parameters > > TITLE=$1; MSG=$2; TIMOUT=$3 > > wmctrl -k on > > sudo -u household zenity --question --title="$TITLE" --text="$MSG" > > --timeout="$TIMOUT" > > RETRNCODE=$? > > wmctrl -k off > > return $RETRNCODE # return codes: 0 = YES, 1 = cancel, 5 = timeout > > } > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > # test of launch of zenity > > Notification "Test of zenity (backup_checksh)" "This should minimize all > > open windows." 5 > > # remove when satisfied that launch works. > > MAX_TIME=$((7 * 24 * 3600)) > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
