How to bring a window to top of the desktop?(if I know the pid) 1

[julianLiuRsch]

For example, If I know the PID(4184) of a ``SciTE'' process, and now it is overlapped by other windows. Then how can I bring that SciTE window to the top of the desktop? (That is, ``in front of'' any other window, at the same time becoming an active window)
My system is Fedora8(x86_64), with gnome.
thanks in adv.

 

[danomac]

In your example, try:

$ fg 4184

Failing that, I have no idea!

 

[Kirsle]

fg (and bg) I think are for the command line... bg a process to get your prompt back and do other stuff while it's running and then fg it again for it to take control of your terminal again. (or Ctrl+Z pauses and backgrounds it and fg resumes it)... either way it doesn't affect the X window system.

Unless X or your desktop environment ships with any command-line app that lets you manipulate windows like that, you'd probably need to program it in a language that has bindings to the X server API (a Perl script using X11::GuiTest might work, if you know the title of the window... not sure if you can get the title based off the PID or not)

http://search.cpan.org/~ctrondlp/X11-GUITest-0.21/GUITest.pm

You already have Perl so you'd need to install X11::GUITest and then just write a quick script that uses it (you should be able to derive enough from the examples in the module documentation if you don't know any Perl).

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