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Old 02-28-2004, 10:47 PM   #1
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How to focus, restore, minimize, windows with bash script?

I can now put up a window with bash using gxmessage - hurray!
Is there a way of getting focus to that window via a bash script ?
Also is there a way in a script to restore my mail window if it is minimised ?
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Old 02-29-2004, 01:06 AM   #2
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If there was it would be WM dependent ...


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Old 02-29-2004, 01:21 AM   #3
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I have KDE 3.1.3 running on Mandrake 9.2
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