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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
Have kdialog preceeded by (or succeeded after an "&" if the context allows it, and if it's preferable for some reason) a loop that has wmctrl "grepping"/activating" the unique name of the kdialog window, followed by xdotool resizing it, and breaking the loop.
Code:
( while true ; do
sleep 0.2 # reduces CPU load if the loop never breaks for some reason
wmctrl -a "relevant and ideally unique title for kdialog window" &&
Probably can be easily adapted to notifications handled by any other notification daemon, requiring one to see what they're called with xprop or something:
Code:
notify-send "bogus" "$(ls /usr/bin)" & xprop
Then click on the notification. "lxqt-notificationd" is the "_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING)" but also a lot of other things, I'm not sure which one is...
If you ever see yourself wanting to manipulate gxmessage dialogs/windows with wmctrl for some reason, you may notice the name of the window set by gxmessage itself is kind of ignored, depending on the parameters you'd use on wmctrl. It will instead still behave as if the window title was "Gxmessage," or yet "gxmessage.Gxmessage," depending on wmctrl parameters. Which is troublesome if you have more than one.
I thought it would be needed to grep the title from a...
I find annoying that, for whatever reason, it seems that some windows get "almost maximized" (I have the impression that some browsers do that by "design", even though I'm not sure), and then I end up clicking in a desktop pixel instead of the scroll bar or something. In my case that action is assigned to show the desktop/minimize all windows.
So here's what I just came up with so far, for a 1280x1024 resolution:
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