Re: [TCLUG:6088] Banal xterm question

[bob@math.umn.edu]

Sandipan,

Thanks!  Works fine.  However, I could not see how to do a non-interactive
window grab with xwininfo.  Instead I did printenv WINDOWID, then converted
it to hex.  The combination gives a nice popup message that iconifies
after a bit.
 
> 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
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Adios,
Chris
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