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xfce_user_1234

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Registered: 2023-12-09

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[SOLVED] Command to identify the running process - xfce4-taskmanager

Hi,

Is there a command to directly open the "identify running process"-function in the xfce4-taskmanager instead of opening the taskmanager first and clicking the cross icon? I want to be able to run this command in the terminal, so that I can immediately select a window of a running process and ideally get a text output with the name of the process.

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ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Command to identify the running process - xfce4-taskmanager

Try using xdotool and either ps or top to accomplish this:

ps -fp $(xdotool selectwindow getwindowpid)

...or:

top -p $(xdotool selectwindow getwindowpid)

If you want to create a keyboard shortcut to run this, you'll need to display it in a terminal window, so use:

xfce4-terminal -T 'Inspect Process' -x COMMAND_FROM_ABOVE

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xfce_user_1234

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Registered: 2023-12-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Command to identify the running process - xfce4-taskmanager

This is what I was looking for, thanks!

By the way, to make the command run as a shortcut, I had to encapsulate it in

sh -c "COMMAND"

And instead of the terminal I used xmessage to display the output, so my final shortcut command is as follows

sh -c "ps -fp $(xdotool selectwindow getwindowpid) | xmessage -file -"