Hi!
Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2018 schrieb Michael:
> 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).
Oh, I always use "focus + raise window under mouse", so I didn't notice :-)
Have you tried to send a mousebuttondown-event before minimizing, e.g.:
xdotool click 1
xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize
This will bring the window under the mouse to the to of the stack and then minize it.
Nik
> 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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