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rasr11

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Problem in script

I created a shell scripts to re-position termite window (running calcurse) to top right. If I run each line separately in terminal, it works flawlessly. But running it as a shell script does not produce the desired effect. Here is the script :

termite -e calcurse
WID=$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --name 'calcurse')
xdotool windowsize $WID 600 420
xdotool windowmove $WID 1320 0

Can anyone help?

Trilby

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Re: Problem in script

Put in some logging of some sort.  Perhaps check WID after the second command by echoing it to a file.  Do you run those commands exactly like that and in that order from a terminal?  I'd suspect the first one would need to be backgrounded.

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2ManyDogs

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Re: Problem in script

Moved to Programming and Scripting.

rasr11

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Re: Problem in script

Put in some logging of some sort.  Perhaps check WID after the second command by echoing it to a file.  Do you run those commands exactly like that and in that order from a terminal?  I'd suspect the first one would need to be backgrounded.

I ran these commands exactly as above in the same order. I checked the WID, by echoing. If I run it as script it returns blank. If I run it manually, it is giving a windows id.

Second line of the program is not able to get the Windows Id  if I run it as script.

Trilby

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Re: Problem in script

I suspect it may take termite a moment to start up and/or properly set the name.  As an initial test of this, I'd put a sleep command between launching termite and the second command.

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rasr11

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Re: Problem in script

I suspect it may take termite a moment to start up and/or properly set the name.  As an initial test of this, I'd put a sleep command between launching termite and the second command.

I have put sleep 10 before the second line, but that is not giving desired result also.

Trilby

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Re: Problem in script

Log the error output from xdotool:

xdotool search --onlyvisible --name 'calcurse' > ~/xdotool.out 2> ~/xdotool.err

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Raynman

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Re: Problem in script

Exactly this (waiting for window to appear) is covered by the man page in the description of options for the search command. But if a 10 second sleep doesn't help, you might have another problem. Also, you can use command chaining (leaving ${args} as exercise for the reader):

xdotool search ${args} windowsize 600 420 windowmove 1320 0

dimich

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Re: Problem in script

termite -e calcurse

Termite stops executing script until exit. Execute termite in background with '&' at the end.

Last edited by dimich (2018-12-27 04:14:19)

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Re: Problem in script

Please edit the title of this thread to be something vaguely useful, as opposed to "Problem in script".

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