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Re: calling in gnome active window via process number



wmctrl -a "something in tittle of the window"
wmctrl -l #list windows

There are several more command to play with this, but wmctrl can
probably do what you want

Hope it helps

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
> for example there is a GUI application XYZ having process ID 12345
> and i want to bring in front of all instead of hitting alt+tab.
>
> actually i am using a remote-monitoring Java base application to monitor
> multiple machines in my network where i can check the real time graph via
> SSH.
> since we have multiple windows i do not want to press alt+tab all the time.
> rather what i want is to use a Bash script to auto switch the application
>
> any idea please ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Myk


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