How do I get the Qube color/label of current active window in bash?
Hi @ian,
For the label it’s very simple : xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname
For the color, take what you want from this too complex one-line command : qvm-ls --fields=NAME,LABEL| grep ^$(xprop -id $(xdotool getwindowfocus) | grep ^WM_CLIENT_MACHINE | cut -d\" -f2 )
And don’t forget, man
is your friend.
Note: I renamed the topic
Or the more generic,
#!/bin/bash
ID=`xdotool getwindowfocus`
QUBE=`xprop _QUBES_VMNAME -id $ID|cut -f2 -d\" `
if [[ "$QUBE" == "_QUBES_VMNAME: not found." ]]; then
exit
else
# Do something with $QUBE
fi
qvm-prefs $QUBE label
will give the color.
If I run the script while dom0 is not focused (by putting sleep 8 &&
in front of the command) it outputs the name and label of every qube.
not for me:
[user@dom0 ~]$ sleep 8 && xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname
Before the end of the 8 seconds if I focus a new window, then I get the new focused window name.
Experiment with the simple label name (xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname
) when you get it, then understand the color part. Do it step by step.
The objective isn’t to give you a solution but it’s you understand the command and tune it to your needs.
Note: for the color, tune the unman’s script which is much better.