Re: Switching in and out of fullscreen dosemu session? - more re wmctrl

[Raphael Tennenbaum rtennenbaum@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Lagasse wrote:
> Rafe, it's occurred to me that wmctrl might be of use to you (and to me)
> after all (wmctrl is in the repositories).
> You can assign a command, such as "wmctrl -a firefox" to a key combo,
> such as Winkey-w (my mnemonic here being "web browser"), so that leaving
> fullscreen dosemu and switching to Firefox is just two key combos,
> Ctrl-Alt-f and Winkey-w. Switching back might be Winkey-x, Ctrl-Alt-f.
> The -a option equals "Activate the window by switching to its desktop
> and raising it" -- so this should work with your multiple
> desktop/workspace approach; you can test things out from a terminal
> before assigning it to a key.
> I don't know about U 8.10, but Gnome in U 9.04 now appears to let you
> assign an unlimited number of personal keyboard shortcuts via Keyboard
> Shortcuts. So I'm using a system where Winkey plus a key launches a
> program, Ctrl-Winkey etc launches as root, and (now) Shift-Winkey etc
> switches to the running program. Alt-Tab becomes mostly unnecessary.
that's of particular interest to me, Paul, because I'm sick of Alt-Tab.
 I'm confused about Keyboard Shortcuts and have never quite gotten them
to work -- for instance, I've set up Thunderbird to be the default
e-mail client; under Desktop in Keyboard Shortcuts I've got Shift-Ctrl-P
for "Launch email client," and it will indeed launch Thunderbird if it
isn't running -- however, if Thunderbird *is* running, that key
combination is simply ignored. how do I define a keyboard shortcut to
switch to an already running process?
I'm on U 9.04 on the desktop, still 8.10 on the netbook. I'm quite
enjoying the fullscreen Xy here on the desktop -- on the netbook for
some reason fullscreen dosemu leaves big black margins, so it's less
use. I'm certainly looking forward to playing around with wmctrl.

-rafe



I'm on U 9.04 on the desktop (still 8.10 on the netbook).
> If you were to have multiple Firefox windows (instead of one Firefox
> window with multiple tabs) you'd have a problem, because confusion can
> result when different windows have the same words in the titlebar (for
> example, if you run "wmctrl -a dosemu" and you have windows entitled
> "XyWrite - Dosemu" and "Compose: Re: Switching in and out of fullscreen
> dosemu session?"). On the other hand, running "wmctrl -a Compose" will
> find and raise the Compose mail window for Thunderbird while "wmctrl -a
> thunderbird" will raise the main Thunderbird window.
> Take a look at wmctrl -- it may be helpful if you mostly rely on a
> regular group of programs. In my re-look, I'm finding that trying to
> toggle a hidden window doesn't seem to work, but I think that's moot if
> you run most apps fullscreen on yr netbook; the "-a" switch will
> probably do quite nicely.
>
> Paul Lagasse
> >