Re: command on switching terminals?

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2018 03:45 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> What I want to do is pretty esoteric, if I execute my command " c 12 " I 
> want focus to jump to xterm #12 (which already works fine) but also 'cd' 
> xterm #12 to the current directory in the xterm I just jumped from.

I'd like to know more about how you're changing the focus of the 
windows.  Would you please share?

> Of course any sort of 'cd' command in the same function but after the 
> jump continues to be executed in the original xterm, thus I'll want 
> some way of detecting the change in focus. It's smartassy but should be 
> educational to fool around with.

I've done something (I think is) similar to what you're wanting to do 
via xdotool sending key strokes to other windows.

Window 1 had a proprietary Python program running with a readline macro 
defined do perform some actions.

Window 2 had a "while :; do xdotool <send macro initiation key sequence 
to window 1>; sleep 60; done" loop running.

Window 3 had a "sleep 72000; xdotool <send Ctrl-C to window 2>" running.

I know that it's not the most graceful, but it did what I wanted it to do.

The point being that I was able to use the xdotool to send keyboard 
commands from one window into a different window.  -  Which sounds 
adjacent to what you're wanting your source xterm to do to xterm #12.

Granted, I don't know how to set up the targeting of xdotool in your 
scenario.  (I used xwininfo to get the Window IDs of window #1 & #2 and 
manually put the values on the xdotool command lines in windows #2 & #3 
respectively.)  But I suspect that can be worked out.



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