You can try
wmctrl. It can send a graceful close command to X applications. The only problem is that it select open X applications based on the window title, not on the application name. Luckily you can modify the appearance of the windows title in the Nedit preferences, so that a uniquely identified string can be a valid fingerprint for the application you want to close.
In Nedit go to Preferences --> Default Settings --> Customize Window Title. In the Format box you can write any string. For example if you choose:
Code:
Nedit: {%c} [%s] %f (%S) - %d
it will show the default window title preceded by the string
Nedit:. Save the defaults to make this behavior permanent.
Now to quit a nedit X window you can do
Unfortunately wmctrl does not have a recursive option, so that it can close only one window. If you want to close multiple nedit session at once, you can define a function like this:
Code:
xquit ()
{
for n in $(wmctrl -l | awk -v name=$1 '$0 ~ name{print $1}');
do
wmctrl -i -c $n;
done
}
this will loop over all the windows having a specific title. The command:
now will close all the sessions and will ask to save modified files (if any). Hope this helps!
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