Re: Getting and setting window size and position

Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:03:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfce.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 14:26 +0300, Jack wrote:
> The question is how to obtain the active window's current
> X,Y,width,height so that I may calculate the new values which are
> compatible with the utility command (which one is the best?) which can
> correctly interpret the values and position the window to the EXACT
> (bit-by-bit) location and size?

The second script from my first reply (named "wing") does this:

   #!/bin/dash
   xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $(xdotool getactivewindow) | zenity --text-info
   exit

You need to make the dash script executable. You probably need to
install https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zenity or to replace it by
something else.

You need to assign the script to a shortcut or by the menu, when not
using fbpanel you need to provide a wing.desktop file to add it to the
menu. If you would run it from a terminal, the terminal would be the
active window.
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