Re: [trinity-users] How to use mouse click as part of a keyboard shortcut?

On Thursday 05 July 2018 02:42:51 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Thanks Nik, I so wanted this to work, but it doesn’t. It closes the active window not the window under the mouse. I wasn’t able to find any other workaround (xdotool seems to have a bug with non-active window usage). Anyone know the ‘dcop’ or ‘kdesktop’ commands? Is there a GUI assist tool for either? Best, Michael #### The results of testing: Further testing of xdotool shows that, while it does maintain consistent [window] variable values across instances, it doesn’t report the correct [window] or [window_id] for anything but the active window. Which kills about all of it’s ability to be scripted. And subsequently to do about anything with a random non-active window under the mouse. The tell is that different [window] values ($WINDOW, $WINDOWFOCUS below) are returned for the same window. When the mouse is over, and clicked in, the currently active window (Konsole shell) this: #!/bin/bash eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell) echo "|$X,$Y|" echo S: "|$SCREEN|" echo W: "|$WINDOW|" echo A1 xdotool selectwindow echo A2 xdotool windowminimize --sync $WINDOW echo B1 xdotool getwindowname $WINDOW echo B2 xdotool getwindowname echo C # xdotool getwindowfocus echo D WINDOWFOCUS=`xdotool getwindowfocus -f` echo WF: $WINDOWFOCUS echo E xdotool getwindowname $WINDOWFOCUS echo F xdotool getactivewindow echo G #windowunmap [options] [window_id=%1] xdotool windowunmap window_id=$WINDOW echo H xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --name ".*" echo I Results in: |1233,467| S: |0| W: |23068904| A1 23068904 A2 B1 B2 There are no windows in the stack Invalid window '%1' Usage: getwindowname [window=%1] If no window is given, %1 is used. See WINDOW STACK in xdotool(1) C D WF: 44040202 E Shell - Konsole F 44040202 G X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 10 (X_UnmapWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 17 Current serial number in output stream: 19 H 926 23069862 23068879 23198258 {snip ~780 entires} I Ref: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xdotool.1.html #### I also tried these variations in the .xbindkeysrc file: ## Works, minimizes wrong window #"xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize" #"xdotool key super+space" ## Does nothing #"xdotool keydown alt click 2 keyup alt" #"xdotool getmouselocation windowminimize" #"xdotool getmouselocation windowactivate windowminimize" #"xdotool selectwindow windowactivate windowminimize" #"xdotool selectwindow windowminimize" #"xdotool click 1" Oddly both 23068904 and 44040202 are contained in the ‘xdotool search’ output, so my best guess is it’s a deeper bug within xdotool, especially since the ‘selectwindow’ attempts didn’t even set the focus on, or activate, the window under the mouse.