Re: Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows

[Fletch]

in reply to Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows

In general the answer is going to depend on some combination of your window manager and/or the desktop you're using. For KDE there's probably some sort of dcop incantation you can send to it, but without a bit more details you may not get anything more specific.

And the language is Perl, the implementation is perl; "PERL" is just wrong.

Update: Actually after thinking over it there may be some sort of window manager hints you can send, but I can't recall what you'd want to search on to track information about them down. It'd also be fairly low-level X11 calls so it wouldn't be really easy to do from perl either.

Update 2: Yeah, that wmctl below implements the thing I was thinking about. Running that through system is going to be your best bet.

[Argel]

I would look into Perl/Tk (or a different GUI toolkit) before diving into low-level X11 calls. Something about maintaining a little bit of sanity comes to mind! :-)