https://github.com/wyatt8740/x11-window-hider
(Also on GitLab - https://gitlab.com/wyatt8740/x11-window-hider.git ) - Easily hide and show (unmap and map) X11 windows. libxcb ANSI (C89) compatible C and bash xdotool implementations.
https://github.com/wyatt8740/x11-window-hider
ansi ansi-c bash bash-script c c89 libxcb map posix unmap x11 xdotool
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(Also on GitLab - https://gitlab.com/wyatt8740/x11-window-hider.git ) - Easily hide and show (unmap and map) X11 windows. libxcb ANSI (C89) compatible C and bash xdotool implementations.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/wyatt8740/x11-window-hider
- Owner: wyatt8740
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-04-10T02:55:36.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-10-22T01:51:02.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-13T17:21:55.610Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: ansi, ansi-c, bash, bash-script, c, c89, libxcb, map, posix, unmap, x11, xdotool
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# x11-window-hider
Easily hide and show (unmap and map) X11 windows.
I wrote the shell scripts first, using xdotool as my interface with the
X server. Later, because I was having a hard time finding C projects that
hadn't been done yet, I 'ported' the shell scripts into K&R C.
I recommend binding these programs to keyboard shortcuts, as they operate on
whichever window currently has focus.
## The Shell Scripts:
These are what you should use if you have `xdotool` and `bash` and GNU `sed`.
The hiding script doesn't require any of those but `xdotool`, but the unhiding
script requires `bash` and GNU `sed`. You can probably replace those with other
tools or options in exotic linuxes/unixes, but I was targeting my personal
Debian machine.
## C programs:
If you want something that will work on basically any POSIX OS, try the C
programs. You only need libxcb's headers and library for them to work.
(Update: 2017: for some reason, the C programs don't work on my 64 bitlaptop
with Intel graphics. I'm probably doing something wrong with the X11 protocol
or making bad assumptions. It was an early C program I wrote, just to try to
do it, so I'm not too concerned with fixing it right now.
The shell scripts still work fine, so I recommend using those. I have no
idea exactly why the C programs broke, and I don't have time to mess with them
at the moment.)
The C Programs:
I chose K&R C because I happened to have a book written in 1989 on C
handy. The book is called "Programming in C: Revised Edition" By
Stephen Kochan. It covers K&R C for most of the book, and then has
an appendix of the then-recent ANSI C standard's differences. I
believe I used only K&R C in this program, but I wrote it months ago
so I may have forgotten something. Anyway, K&R is what I learned C
in.
It should compile on basically any C compiler as long as you
have a POSIX system. By replacing the check for a file's existance
with `access()` and the code to find the path of the user's home directory
(which uses `getpwuid()`), you can probably even make this code compile in
Windows for use with XMing (a Win32 X11 server). I tried to avoid any
external libraries where possible, so it is highly portable.
To compile, run `./compile.sh` from the root of the repository.