Hotkey to raise/lower specific application/window

mike11 · 09-05-2010, 08:28 PM

Hi All,

How can I define a hotkey which will raise (and ideally also lower) a specific window or application?.

As an example:
Assuming epiphany is minimized, pressing F5 will raise the epiphany window. Pressing F5 again will minimize it. Something like guake/tilda.

Thanks,
Mike.

evo2 · 09-05-2010, 08:37 PM

This type of thing should be handled by your window manager. What window manager are you using?

Cheers,

Evo2.

mike11 · 09-05-2010, 08:38 PM

Gnome + metacity. considering moving to compiz.

evo2 · 09-05-2010, 09:06 PM

Ouch, been years since I used Metacity. From what I remember it is a truly hobbled window manager. It would not surprise me if this can't be done directly with metacity. I recall a project called devilspie that should be able to make up for what your window manager lacks. It may be already packaged for your distro (it is for mine).

Cheers,

Evo2.

mike11 · 09-05-2010, 09:10 PM

thanks, but I don't think devilspie does what I want. It's more a script language to control how to place windows but no hotkey support (AFAIK).

evo2 · 09-05-2010, 09:48 PM

Ok then, my next suggestion is to use wmctrl combined with custom keybings in gnome/metacity. This should work but will require a little effort. I think you need to write a script that uses wmctrl to toggle the raise/lower state of a window that matches the name/title/class of the window you are interested in and then set a keybinding to run that script.

Cheers,

Evo2.

mike11 · 09-05-2010, 10:23 PM

Thanks.