On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:42:46AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > 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/'
Hum.. That works locally, but not on ssh connections. $WINDOWID isn't set. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
