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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to get X Window id from within Emacs?
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:52:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f16c72ea66f044590f3954e2b0d3ca42.support1@rcdrun.com> (raw)

The standard shell commend `xwininfo' gives me the Window id, such as
0x2e000ac and then I can run shell command like `xdotool' to activate
the Emacs window:

$ xwininfo 

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2e000ac "*shell* - GNU Emacs at lco2"

after switching to other workspace, then I can still do:

$ xdotool windowactivate 0x2e000ac

and I would return to Emacs X Window.

Is there a way to get the Window ID from within Emacs?

That will be useful to return to Emacs upon some notifications and
jobs done, during the watching of the movie.

Jean




             reply	other threads:[~2024-12-15 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-15 17:52 Jean Louis [this message]
2024-12-15 18:25 ` How to get X Window id from within Emacs? Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-15 21:53   ` Jean Louis
2024-12-16  0:39   ` Po Lu
2024-12-16  5:20     ` Jean Louis
2024-12-15 19:00 ` Alain.Cochard
2024-12-15 21:57   ` Jean Louis

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