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Re: [PLUG] Hotkey to bring a window into the forground?
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On 1/22/10, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> Way back when, in Windows you could assign a hot-key to bring a window
> into the foreground. I defined my first three command line windows as
> ALT+1, 2 & 3 and have been using that for maybe 15 years. At some point
> the acceptable keys changed, and ALT+ was disallowed, but I used a hex
> editor on the .LNK file to force it anyway, and it still works up to XP,
> at least.
>
> I know that System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcut has "Run a
> terminal" but I don't want to run a new one, I want to bring my existing
> one into the foreground. How do I do that in Ubuntu/Gnome?
>
> In case it matters, I'm using roxterm, not gnome-terminal, as previously
> discussed.
wmctrl and a script.
http://superuser.com/questions/16647/custom-hotkey-shortcut-to-open-bring-to-front-an-app
See #2
A quick try didn't work - kept opening new instances, much like a
regular keybinding would - hack at it a little.
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jim fisher
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