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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

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[openbox] focus or execute - how to?

I'd want to key-bind an execution of an application (it is geany) at a single-instanse mode: if the app is already running, just focus it instead of starting new instanse.

How to?

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Inxsible

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Re: [openbox] focus or execute - how to?

Write a script to check if the pidof geany returns anything. if yes, then pull that pid else start a new instance of the app.

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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

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Re: [openbox] focus or execute - how to?

Write a script to check if the pidof geany returns anything. if yes, then pull that pid else start a new instance of the app.

There isn't a pid, but there is a socket:

$ netstat -l | grep geany_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     528982 /tmp/geany_socket.cc71320d

Unfortunately I don't know how to use it. Is there some example I can adapt?

Last edited by student975 (2011-04-14 17:06:29)

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student975

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Re: [openbox] focus or execute - how to?

Digging here and there (and being far from bash programming) I have "wrote" the script:

#!/bin/bash

CTX="\[sysFiles\] - Geany"
APP=$(wmctrl -l | grep "$CTX" | awk '{print $1}')

if [ -z "$APP" ]; then
  geany
else
  wmctrl -i -a $APP
fi

exit 0

It seems to work as expected, but I'm not sure it is a good solution. So prefer to wait for critics before marking the topic as SOLVED.

Last edited by student975 (2011-04-14 19:51:41)

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