On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:14:47PM +1100, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > 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.
What's wrong with using xlsclients, which *does* come as standard? -- Thomas Adam
