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Command to display current terminal window's settings?

Hell All,

I was wondering if there is a command line command that will display the current terminal's settings?

For example I would like to run the command and it will display the current window's settings, in order to view for instance the window's geometry size?

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

Hey Allen, thanks for the reply.

I tried the command and this was the output:

Code:

# xrandr

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050

default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm

  1680x1050      50.0* 

  1440x900      51.0    52.0  

  1400x1050      53.0    54.0  

  1360x765      55.0  

  1280x1024      56.0    57.0    58.0  

  1280x960      59.0    60.0  

  1280x720      61.0  

  1152x864      62.0  

  1024x768      63.0    64.0    65.0    66.0    67.0    68.0  

  960x720        69.0    70.0  

  928x696        71.0    72.0  

  896x672        73.0    74.0  

  832x624        75.0  

  800x600        76.0    77.0    78.0    79.0    80.0    81.0    82.0    83.0    84.0    85.0  

  720x400        86.0  

  700x525        87.0    88.0  

  640x512        89.0    90.0    91.0  

  640x480        92.0    93.0    94.0    95.0    96.0    97.0    98.0    99.0  

  640x400      100.0  

  640x350      101.0  

  576x432      102.0  

  512x384      103.0    104.0    105.0    106.0    107.0  

  416x312      108.0  

  400x300      109.0    110.0    111.0    112.0    113.0  

  360x200      114.0  

  320x240      115.0    116.0    117.0    118.0  

  320x200      119.0  

  320x175      120.0

Not sure what all that is?

I came across this command below which does display the correct stuff, but I have to click the window that I want to display the data for.

Code:

# xwininfo



xwininfo: Please select the window about which you

          would like information by clicking the

          mouse in that window.



xwininfo: Window id: 0x1e04618 "mmartin@mmartin.paoli.jwpepper.local:/"



  Absolute upper-left X:  359

  Absolute upper-left Y:  161

  Relative upper-left X:  0

  Relative upper-left Y:  0

  Width: 1081

  Height: 705

  Depth: 32

  Visual: 0x74

  Visual Class: TrueColor

  Border width: 0

  Class: InputOutput

  Colormap: 0x1e00003 (not installed)

  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity

  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity

  Backing Store State: NotUseful

  Save Under State: no

  Map State: IsViewable

  Override Redirect State: no

  Corners:  +359+161  -240+161  -240-184  +359-184

  -geometry 133x40+357+132

By default, when you run the command the mouse then turns into a "plus" looking sign, and it tells you to select the window that you want to display.

There are 2 options that are to use a "name" or "id" instead of using the mouse. Do you know if there is a default "name" or "id" for the current window I am in? Or is there a way to get either of those? I ask because my goal is to do this programmatically, without any human interaction (so no one will be able to use the mouse to select the window).

Thanks,
Matt

Ok so I think I found a way to do this.

If I do the following I can get the "Active" window's id.

Code:

 # xprop -root | grep "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)"

_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x1e04618

So that current window's id is "0x1e04618".

Thanks,
Matt

Nice catch:

Code:

xwininfo -id $(xprop -root | grep "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)" | cut -d " " -f5) | grep "geometry" | cut -d " " -f4

seems to isolate what you want.

Hey Allen, thanks for your help.

This is my solution below. The result is to isolate the windows geometry so I can check and make sure it is a certain size.
Below shows how I get the "Active Window's Geometry" so I can use it later in a script.

Here's what I got:

Code:

#!/bin/bash



#Finds and Sets the "Active" Window's ID to variable "WINDOW_ID"

WINDOW_ID=$(xprop -root | grep "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)"| cut -d ' ' -f 5)



#Uses the $WINDOW_ID variable to get the window's full geometry setting.

FULL_GEOMETRY=$(xwininfo -id "$WINDOW_ID" | grep "geometry" | cut -d ' ' -f 4)



#Separate the geometry to have only the "rows x cols"

ACTUAL_GEOMETRY=$(echo $FULL_GEOMETRY | cut -d '+' -f 1)



echo $ACTUAL_GEOMETRY







________OUTPUT________



167x35





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