Focus at window

Olav Vitters olav at vitters.nl
Tue Aug 21 08:05:15 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 09:21:57PM +0200, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote:
> Is it possible to set focus at gnome-terminal window after system bell
> ? Can't find any good solution for that. What I want to achieve is
> working from example Chrome or other terminal and when window gets
> system bell it will be focus.

I suggest using wmctrl. IIRC gnome-terminal sets some special
environment variable which allows you to script wmctrl.

Automatically switching focus on system bell would not really work I
think; metacity and mutter would prevent that (focus stealing
prevention).
-- 
Regards,
Olav


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