Re: [TCLUG:6088] Banal xterm question

[Sandipan Panigrahi <pani@frontiernet.net>]

Here is a program that will do it. But you will have to know the
window id of the xterm. You can find that out by running xwininfo.
I am not sure there are any control sequences that will do it. But
you can take a look at the source code README file which has 
references to control sequences that change the behaviour of the xterm.

You can compile the program with :
gcc -o myiconify myiconify.c -lX11 

And run it like so :
myiconify -i 0x400005
to iconify it or
myiconify -o 0x400005 
to reverse the process. But you will have to find out the window
id of the xterm window, some other way. You can use xwininfo and
do a grep for the title and the cut the window id part of it.

Enjoy !
--
sandipan

/*-- Cut here and save as myiconify.c or anyother name you prefer --*/
#include<X11/Xlib.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void print_help()
{
  fprintf(stderr, "usage: myiconify <-o|i> windowid\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "  where -i: iconifies the window\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "        -o: un-iconifies the window\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "  windowid is the id of the window in hex as returned
by\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "  say xwininfo. It is not the title of the
window\n");
  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

main(int argc, char** argv)
{
        Display*        dpy;
        Window          win;
        Screen          scr;
        int             iconify = 0;

        if( argc != 3 ) {
                print_help();
       
}                                                                      

        if( strcmp(argv[1], "-i") == 0 ) {
                iconify = 1;
        } else if ( strcmp(argv[1], "-o") == 0 ) {
                iconify = 0;
        } else {
                print_help();
        }

        if( sscanf( argv[2], "%x", &win ) != 1 ) {
                print_help();
        }

        dpy = XOpenDisplay("");
        if( !dpy ) {
                fprintf( stderr, "Cannot open display\n" );
                exit(1);
        }

        if( iconify ) {
                XIconifyWindow( dpy, win, DefaultScreen(dpy) );
        } else
{                                                               
                XMapWindow( dpy, win );
        }

        XCloseDisplay(dpy);
}

bob@math.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> I would like to iconify an xterm window from a bash script running
> in that same xterm.  And for fun, maybe reverse the process as well.
> 
> Is this trivial or terrible, and how can it be done?
> 
> Adios,
> Chris
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