On Thursday 05 July 2018 02:42:51 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2018 schrieb Michael:
> > [...]
> > A) Would someone either show me what the command(s) would be to minimize
> > whatever is the top most window under the current mouse position. Or
> > point me at the right tool to be able to find it?
> > [...]
>
> You could try "xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize".
Thanks Nik,
I so wanted this to work, but it doesn’t. It closes the active window not the
window under the mouse. I wasn’t able to find any other workaround (xdotool
seems to have a bug with non-active window usage).
Anyone know the ‘dcop’ or ‘kdesktop’ commands? Is there a GUI assist tool for
either?
Best,
Michael
#### The results of testing:
Further testing of xdotool shows that, while it does maintain consistent
[window] variable values across instances, it doesn’t report the correct
[window] or [window_id] for anything but the active window. Which kills
about all of it’s ability to be scripted. And subsequently to do about
anything with a random non-active window under the mouse.
The tell is that different [window] values ($WINDOW, $WINDOWFOCUS below) are
returned for the same window.
When the mouse is over, and clicked in, the currently active window (Konsole
shell) this:
#!/bin/bash
eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
echo "|$X,$Y|"
echo S: "|$SCREEN|"
echo W: "|$WINDOW|"
echo A1
xdotool selectwindow
echo A2
xdotool windowminimize --sync $WINDOW
echo B1
xdotool getwindowname $WINDOW
echo B2
xdotool getwindowname
echo C
# xdotool getwindowfocus
echo D
WINDOWFOCUS=`xdotool getwindowfocus -f`
echo WF: $WINDOWFOCUS
echo E
xdotool getwindowname $WINDOWFOCUS
echo F
xdotool getactivewindow
echo G
#windowunmap [options] [window_id=%1]
xdotool windowunmap window_id=$WINDOW
echo H
xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --name ".*"
echo I
Results in:
|1233,467|
S: |0|
W: |23068904|
A1
23068904
A2
B1
B2
There are no windows in the stack
Invalid window '%1'
Usage: getwindowname [window=%1]
If no window is given, %1 is used. See WINDOW STACK in xdotool(1)
C
D
WF: 44040202
E
Shell - Konsole
F
44040202
G
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 10 (X_UnmapWindow)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 17
Current serial number in output stream: 19
H
926
23069862
23068879
23198258
{snip ~780 entires}
I
Ref:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xdotool.1.html
####
I also tried these variations in the .xbindkeysrc file:
## Works, minimizes wrong window
#"xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize"
#"xdotool key super+space"
## Does nothing
#"xdotool keydown alt click 2 keyup alt"
#"xdotool getmouselocation windowminimize"
#"xdotool getmouselocation windowactivate windowminimize"
#"xdotool selectwindow windowactivate windowminimize"
#"xdotool selectwindow windowminimize"
#"xdotool click 1"
Oddly both 23068904 and 44040202 are contained in the ‘xdotool search’ output,
so my best guess is it’s a deeper bug within xdotool, especially since
the ‘selectwindow’ attempts didn’t even set the focus on, or activate, the
window under the mouse.
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