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a-way-to-bookmark-windows.md

Two shell scripts to bookmark and restore bookmarks for windows. Based on exact window id's.

You then use these in your desktop environment's global keybindings. For example I have bound:

  • Alt-Super-1 to "bookmark-window-as 1"
  • Super-1 to "bookmark-activate-window 1" And so on for all digits. You could also use letters or whatever you want.

Note that if you don't want bookmarking and instead just want Super-F to always bring up your Firefox window, you want to do things like directly invoke "xdotool search --class firefox windowactivate" (which is literally an example I just ripped from "man xdotool").

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bookmark-activate-window
#!/bin/sh
WIN=`cat ~/.wmbookmarks/$1`
# activate the window and center the mouse over the window
xdotool windowactivate $WIN mousemove --window $WIN --polar 0 0
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bookmark-window-as
#!/bin/sh
xdotool getactivewindow > ~/.wmbookmarks/$1
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