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Commands tagged X Window

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Terminal - Commands tagged X Window - 5 results
w3m mon-ip.com -dump|grep -Eo "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"|uniq|xclip -selection clipboard
2012-02-06 14:42:03
User: anyname
Functions: grep
Tags: ip address X Window
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Get your external ip right into your xclipboard
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setxkbmap it
2011-03-31 09:52:45
User: hute37
Tags: X X Window
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Set keyboard layout in X

change keyboard layout in X

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sh -c 'if pgrep x2vnc && env LC_ALL=C xmessage -button "Kill it:0,Ignore it:1" "Another connection is already running. Should I kill it instead of ignoring it?"; then killall x2vnc; fi; x2vnc -passwd /home/Ariel/.vnc/passwd -east emerson:0'
2010-07-06 09:11:12
User: zhangweiwu
Functions: env killall sh
Tags: Process Management X Window
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create an application launcher shortcut that allow only one process of it running

This command is suitable to use as application launching command for a desktop shortcut. It checks if the application is already running by pgrepping its process ID, and offer user to kill the old process before starting a new one.

It is useful for a few x11 application that, if re-run, is more likely a mistake. In my example, x2vnc is an x11 app that does not quit when its connection is broken, and would not work well when a second process establish a second connection after the first broken one.

The LC_ALL=C for xmesseng is necessary for OpenSUSE systems to avoid a bug. If you don't find needing it, remove the "env LC_ALL=C" part

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wmctrl -l -p | while read line; do ps -o cmd= "$(echo "$line" | awk '$0=$3')"; done > ~/.windows
2010-07-04 22:11:24
User: matthewbauer
Functions: ps read
Tags: X X11 windows X Window wmctrl
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Save your open windows to a file so they can be opened after you restart

This will save your open windows to a file (~/.windows).

To start those applications:

cat ~/.windows | while read line; do $line &; done

Should work on any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.

If you use DWM or another Window Manager not using EWMH or NetWM try this:

xwininfo -root -children | grep '^ ' | grep -v children | grep -v '<unknown>' | sed -n 's/^ *\(0x[0-9a-f]*\) .*/\1/p' | uniq | while read line; do xprop -id $line _NET_WM_PID | sed -n 's/.* = \([0-9]*\)$/\1/p'; done | uniq -u | grep -v '^$' | while read line; do ps -o cmd= $line; done > ~/.windows
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xev -id `xwininfo | grep 'Window id' | awk '{print $4}'`
2009-09-19 22:47:16
User: ktoso
Functions: awk grep
Tags: xwindows grep X Window xev
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Track X Window events in chosen window

After executing this, click on a window you want to track X Window events in.

Explaination: "xev will track events in the window with the following -id, which we get by greping window information obtained by xwininfo"

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