On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 15:51, phanisvara das <listm...@phanisvara.com> wrote:
> doesn't this depend on the application, not the DE? in many cases app.s can > be configured via 'settings' or conf. files, what they'll do when they are > called while an instance is running already (konqueror, per ex.). in some > cases you can add a command line argument to force a certain behavior, like > re-use of an existing instance (firefox). > Yes, but not all applications support this. > with skype i couldn't figure out how to make it re-use it's existing > instance, unfortunately. > That is one of the main offenders. They will have over 10 Skype instances running! >> You could use xlsclients -al to get the list of running applications and >> their window IDs, and then xdotool windowactivate <windowid> to bring it >> to the foreground. > > gave this a short try, but didn't get anything useful. didn't try very much > though; quite possibly this may work if one really tries... > I did manage to locate and bring to foreground a Dolphin window with this. It is doable so long as a window is open, I need to check for applications such as Skype that may be running as a service. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
