Daniel Perelman
The problem# Previously, I wrote a script for opening and immediately focusing xfce4-appfinder. But xfce4-appfinder will notice if it's already open and just assume you want to use the existing window. Even if it's on a different desktop. And therefore attempting to focus it will either do nothing...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Last week, I mentioned that I needed a hack to kill xprop that seemed like it should be unnecessary. Specifically, I had its output piped to a Bash while read loop and once that had found a line to act on, there was no further need to get more lines from xprop, but break or exit...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I have my window manager set to not focus new windows because I dislike having a new window pop up while typing and having the keystrokes surprisingly sent to the new window instead of the one I thought I was typing in. While this is usually what I want, this does mean extra clicks...