On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Bryan Richter wrote:
On Nov 30, 2007 2:54 PM, Chris Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to cause a specific window to move to the
foreground when a shell script is run. My googling is returning very
little signal to noise! I'm running pretty much stock Gutsy ubuntu. Any
pointers?
First, it may help to know that while windows can ask to be moved to
the front, they are not guaranteed any benefaction on the part of the
window manager. So it might be impossible, unless you scripted the
window manager itself, and that's probably all sorts of annoying.
(Unless you're using a sweet window manager like Ion).
However, something that you may find useful are two Xterm resources:
popOnBell and bellIsUrgent. You can "man xterm" for details on them.
But basically your usage would be something like:
xterm -xrm "XTerm*popOnBell: true"
and/or -xrm "XTerm*bellIsUrgent: true"
and then in that xterm,
$ if its_time_to_run_the_script(); then
# Ring the bell to ask to pop to front and set urgent flag
echo -e "\a"
run_the_script()
fi
If that works for you, there are other fun way to specify the
resources, rather than the command line, that you might find useful.
-Bryan
Dear Bryan,
It looks like this might be harder than I thought. The application I had
in mind is something like this: use the motion package to look for changes
in a video stream from a camera; when it sees some, it launches a script
that moves a video display window to the foreground. The alert method you
gave may be the best I can do, but it isn't ideal because other
applications also ring the bell.
Yours,
Chris
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