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wmctrl is a command for EWMH- and NetWM-compatible X Window managers on Linux systems. It can be used to control windows by their characteristics on workspaces and on external displays.

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How to customize window tiling zones/grid?

In Cinnamon, pressing super+arrow keys (or other similar shortcut) resizes current window into a tile (snaps to grid). How can I customize this grid? For example I would like to split screen into 3 equal vertical zones so that the window would…
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How do I resize the active window to 50% with wmctrl?

I would like to resize the window to the left half of the screen. A solution to achieve that would be to use wmctrl and keybind the right command to a keyboard shortcut. But the manpage only shows how to resize to a certain height and width, for…
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wmctrl-like tool or alternative for kde wayland

A big part of my workflow is based on using shortcuts. Currently I use xbindkeys and wmctrl to run-or-raise an application. E.g: Super+F brings up firefox or run it if not running. Autokey works fine with KDE and I could also use KDE native custom…
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wmctrl doesn't move window when snapped or tiled

I'm using Mint 18.1 cinnamon. I'm trying to write a little bash program to move windows around. I have a command that will remove maximized_vert and maximized_horz then move the window. It works fine if the the target window is maximized or just…
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How can I automate window tiling with a custom width? (Cinnamon)

I am running Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 2.4.8. I really like xdotool, but it conflicts with Cinnamon's awesome snapping/tiling feature. If I run the following command, it does NOT work if the current window is snapped to a…
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Resizing a maximized window from the command line

The following script fails to resize an already maximized window: wmctrl -i -r :ACTIVE: -b remove,maximized_vert,maximized_horz xdotool windowunmap --sync xdotool windowmap --sync wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,300,168,740,470 I am pretty sure the…
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How to get the url from current tab of firefox, without need to install additional software?

It's possible to get the current tab with xdotool: # set focus to address on browser xdotool search --onlyvisible --classname Navigator windowactivate --sync key F6 # copy address from browser tab to clipboard xdotool search --onlyvisible…
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How to minimize an application window from command line

I have a startup application that has no option to "start minimized" or "close to system tray" etc. and therefore would like to use a startup script that will first start the application and then minimize its window. Actually, I already have a…
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Command-line tool to get "click and drag" rectangle coordinates from the screen

I would like to execute a command-line command that activates "click and drag" mouse selection on a single local X11 screen. The goal is to: get the selected rectangle X and Y coordinates, get the rectangle width and height, output these values to…
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Retrieve X11 window ID of a just-launched GUI-program

I want to retrieve the X id of GUI programs I launch in background, in order to work on their windows properties. I've been so far using this workaround: myprogram & sleep 1 winID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '/./{line=$0} END{print $1;}') But this relies on…
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How to move a window to a different workspace using its ID, in bash?

Currently I have successfully used wmctrl -r :SELECT: -t 2 but something like wmctrl -r -i 0x03e00003 -t 2 does not work. How should I write the command in order to select the window to be moved by ID not by mouse? I am using Linux Mint 13 with…
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Is there a way to get list of windows on KDE Wayland?

In the era of X11, I could do wmctrl -l to list available windows, that I can use in my scripts. $ wmctrl -l 0x01000050 0 my-pc project1 – Readme.md But nowadays most application use Wayland. The above command only shows windows that are running…
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How can I monitor in real time the changes to the browser's WM_NAME

I need to check how the browser's WM_NAME (let's say google-chrome) is changing in real time. How can I do that ?
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AWK - Dealing with spaces in the last column of output from wmctrl

As a first project for learning awk, I wanted to reformat the output of the wmctrl command, which can be installed like this in Debian 11: sudo apt install wmctrl To list information about all the windows I have open, I run this command: wmctrl…
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Is it possible to move window out of the screen border?

So I'm currently moving application Windows with wmctrl but I can't move a window outside the screen's border. Not talking about moving outside top left corner which we can't even acheive it by mouse, I can't even move most of the window outside the…
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