On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: [...] } It would be nice if I could restore the window name back to what it was. } I know I can find the current title with xprop and a mouse click. Any } way to find if the program is running in a window and if so what the } current WM_NAME is (without having to click the mouse?). } } In other words, how can my perl script check if there's a name and what } it is currently set as?
This works on an xterm (and may work on other terminals, but I don't use 'em): xprop -id $WINDOWID WM_NAME | sed 's/^[^=]*= "\(.*\)"$/\1/' } Bill Moseley } [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]