Here is an enhanced version of a script found here: http://somanov.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/window-shortcuts-for-linux-desktops/
That version had the problem that it searched for the program_name in the complete wmctrl line not just in the class. That made it do bad switches. Like you had a folder open in Nautilus that had the name firefox in it, it considered Nautilus too as a Firefox candidate.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
import sys
import commands
program_name = sys.argv[1] # the program to be focused
# get all windows from wmcontrol
windows = sorted([x.strip() for x in commands.getoutput(
"""wmctrl -l -x""" ).split("\n") if x !=''])
wins = []
for win in windows:
win = win.replace(' ', ' ')
parts = win.split(' ', 5)
d = dict(id=parts[0], klass=parts[2], title=parts[4])
wins.append(d)
# filter candidates on klass
candidates = [w['id'] for w in wins
if program_name in w['klass'].lower()]
if candidates:
# at least one candidate found , we need to check if the active window is among the candidates (for cycling)
# Get the id of the active window
# Note: wmctrl currently does not support getting information about the active window. In order to realize this
# we use xprop here. Unfortunately xprop gives us the window id of the active window in a different format:
# Window ids from wmctrl always begin with 0x followed by 8 digits (leading zeroes for padding). xprop
# does not do the padding and might give a window id starting with 0x followed by only 6 digits. The
# lines below get the id of the current window and make the id returned by xprop comaptible with
# the window ids returned by wmctrl.
active_window_string = commands.getoutput(
'xprop -root | grep "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)"')
active_window_string = active_window_string[active_window_string.find("#")+4:].strip()
active_window = "0x" + "0" * (8-len(active_window_string)) + active_window_string
# the window to display. (one of the windows in candidates)
next_window = None
if active_window not in candidates:
# if the active window is not among the candidate windows
# ..just show the first candidate window
next_window = candidates[0]
else:
# we are already showing one of the candidate windows
# show the *next* candidate in the list (cycling)
next_window = candidates[
(candidates.index(active_window)+1) % len(candidates)]
if next_window:
# tell wmcontrol to display the next_window
os.system('wmctrl -i -a "%s"' % (next_window,) )
else : # no windows open which fit the pattern of program_name
os.system("%s &" % (program_name,)) # open new window
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How I can get it execute and switch to Midnight Commander?
Thanks for a fantastic util. Been happily using it until I switched to xubuntu from ubuntu after upgrade from lucid to precise. xprop in xubuntu seems to have adjusted it's output, so have updated the cycling part of the code. Update here:
http://www.mckinley.biz/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Scripting.RunOrFocus
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