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Re: Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows

by Fletch (Bishop)
on May 11, 2006 at 23:45 UTC ( [id://548872]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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.

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Re^2: Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows
by Argel (Prior) on May 12, 2006 at 00:09 UTC
    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! :-)

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