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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

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how to check if window is hidden?

Hi,

Using

wmctrl -r winodw_name -b toggle,hidden

hides/unhides a window.

Is it possible to check from the command line if a window is hidden?.

Thanks

Last edited by jt1122 (2021-08-25 13:32:18)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: how to check if window is hidden?

"xprop -id <window_id> | grep window\ state | awk '{print $3}'" would return "Iconic".

So something like:

xprop -id "$(wmctrl -lv | grep <window_name> | awk '{print $1}')" | grep window\ state | awk '{print $3}'

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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

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Re: how to check if window is hidden?

Thanks.

I actually checked xprop but I used the -name option to identify a window.
Apparently the latter returns a much smaller set of properties which don''t include NET_WM_STATE.

This seems to a quirk, nothing about this mentioned in the man page.