问题
Is there a command to tell compiz that we want to bring in front and set focus to a specific window? How should we identify the window in that command?
The reason behind this question is the following use-case:
Suppose we have a wiki to keep notes of anything interesting we find out. It would be very convenient to have a keyboard shortcut to bring the browser window with our Wiki page in front and start typing immediately then with another key combination switch to the application we were working before
I know that ALT + TAB switches between the last two used windows but cannot support more complex combinations of applications. E.g Browser+Eclipse+ Wiki
If there is a command like the one described, it is easy to add a shortcut to it from KDE or GNOME interface
回答1:
What you are looking for is wmctrl. For example, add a keyboard shortcut to invoke a command like
wmctrl -Fa 'Wiki - Google Chrome'
to raise and activate the window with that title.
There are different ways of selecting a window by title, id, etc. See man wmctrl. The list of windows can be obtained running
$ wmctrl -l
I haven't tried it with compiz but wmctrl should work for any EWMH compliant window manager.
回答2:
This worked for me with Compiz:
xdotool windowactivate `xdotool search --onlyvisible --class firefox`
回答3:
You'll want to send the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client message to the root window. This will alert any compliant window manager (including Compiz) that you are requesting to make active a particular window.
See the EWMH spec, specifically the section on _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.
Note that depending on the window manager's configuration, it may refuse to honor your request, or give the user the chance to ignore it.
回答4:
I found this web page that has an example source program you could compile that will take bring an X window to the front.
The key is the X11 function XRaiseWindow.
I imagine it would be pretty easy to write a small program and either write a wrapper script or just make the program itself robust, and then set Compiz to attach this to a global keyboard shortcut.
回答5:
The Widget plugin could do what you describe.
- Configure the Widget plugin to mark the desired windows as widgets (e.g. by matching on window title or role).
- Configure the Window Rules plugin to make widget windows present on all workspaces (sticky) and to skip the taskbar.
See http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Widget
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2000050/how-to-programmatically-switch-to-a-specific-window-in-compiz