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Issue 167

From Issue #167
March 2008

Mar 01, 2008  By Kyle Rankin
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Why move, resize and shade windows by hand when a program can do it for you?
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Kyle Rankin is a systems architect; and the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 20:07.

"I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." (Douglas Adams)

quake terminal

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Submitted by Luciano (not verified) on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 07:43.

Hello,

Thanks for the article! I changed it a bit so it will also open the terminal if not open yet.

#!/bin/sh

touchTerm()
{
        wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -e '0,0,0,1279,500'
        wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -b add,shaded
        wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -b add,below
        touch /tmp/.quake.shaded
}

S1=`wmctrl -l|grep 'Quake Terminal'|wc -l`

if [ $S1 -eq '0' ]; then
    gnome-terminal --window-with-profile='Quake Terminal' --title='Quake Terminal'
    wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -e '0,0,0,1279,500'
fi
# Unshade and bring to front
if [ -f /tmp/.quake.shaded ]; then
    wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -b remove,below
    wmctrl -r 'Quake Terminal' -b remove,shaded
    wmctrl -a 'Quake Terminal'
    rm /tmp/.quake.shaded
# Shade and send to back
else
        touchTerm
fi

      


  

 




      

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    Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 21:58.  


  

    
Great article! Thanks for writing it.

      


  

 
  

        
 

        
                  

            


  
  

    
 

 

 

 

 

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