Re: [PLUG] Hotkey to bring a window into the forground?

[jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

typo in the window title - it works!!!



On 1/22/10, jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org> wrote:
> 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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