Tim Connors skrev: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Olav Kvittem wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have too many windows and >> I would like to search the windowlist to find and select a window ? >> In my dreams I would hit a key and type a few characters and I will >> see a short windowlist from which I can choose.. >> Are there any modules around that can do whole or part of that ? > > I use the following shell script:
Great that helps a lot :-) Now I only need to find the window to enter the command in ;-) If there were function to get input from the screen you could imagine : Key Tab A CMS Exec fvwm_focus `fvwmGetInput` So then I can find the most needed ones on a function key Key F10 A SC Exec fvwm_focus Opera Key F11 A SC Exec fvwm_focus Thunderbird Key F12 A SC Exec fvwm_focus Twinkle Cheers Olav Now > > ~/bin/fvwm_focus: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > #!/bin/bash > # finds a window title(s) to focus. With no args, it repeats the previous > # search > if [ -n "$*" ] ; then > search=\*"$*"\* > echo "$search" > $HOME/.nextfocus > else > search=`cat $HOME/.nextfocus` > fi > > echo "`date`: $search" >> /tmp/fvwm_focus.log > > #FvwmCommand "Next (\"$search\") Function \"flipFlopFocus\"" > FvwmCommand "WindowList (\"$search\") c c NoGeometry, CurrentAtEnd, > IconifiedAtEnd" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > And the following keybinding to repeat the same search as last time. > Key Tab A CMS Exec exec fvwm_focus > > > I have half a zillion xterms open, and when any long running (>10 seconds) > job finishes, my shell does two things: beeps in a distinctive way, and > renames the title of the xterm to include the time it finished. When one > of half a zillion jobs I am currently running finishes, I hear a certain > pattern of beeps, but only Ghod knows which xterm on which page on which > desktop it came from. So I look at the current time, and run "focus_fvwm > 23:03" to find any xterms that finished in the last minute. Silly eh? I > could just run less xterms! > > I also output the pts number to the xterm windows title, and have been > known to search for a guilty window that was holding on and not letting a > stale mountpoint unmount -- use fuser/lsof to search for the guitly > process, use ps to find out which pts it it using, then use "focus_fvwm > pts/67" to find the xterm. >
