Re: [wmii] Select window by name?

Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:05:59PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>>>> I think there is something I do not understand here. Isn't wmiir
>>>> supported? Isn't every documented command line switch of wmiir supported?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sure, but there is no cmd to select a specific client by id.
>>>
>>>
>> Okay, so one has to search all clients in all views for the right index,
>> then select the one found.
>>
>
> Yes, that's possible (but the traffic on ther socket server will
> be very high and slow the whole focussing down if you
> don't use a native 9P library and stick to wmiir calls).
>
I'll try Suraj's Ruby stuff; I understand that circumvents wmiir.

And he has implemented at least half of what I need already :-)

> Besides this, the approach is racy, because during the time of
> having choosed a clients title and the attempt to find and focus
> it, it might have disappeared already...
Such is life. Suppose I remember which view and column to find the
client in. During the time of having chosen the right view and the
right column the client might have disappeared.

I'll need to output a suitable error message, then. ("Beep!"?)

Kai
Received on Mon Aug 07 2006 - 10:13:19 UTC