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Lead Farmer
This tiny scrip will gracefully close all windows.
How to add the script
Extract somewhere on your PC
1) You can use the app Add Key, select and key binding and the address of the script you want to use.
2) Add the shortcut manually adding the short in desktop settings, like in IceWM .example.
key "Ctrl+Shift+k" /home/oren/Documents/close_all_windows.sh
3) you can add a menu entry with Shortcut Maker or do it manually.Warning: may kill running programs.
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RJP
Very good script, but there should be a warning that it kills running programs from desktop too.
For Shortcut Maker you could set variable which is working all locales.
#Desktop Shortcut FILE_WRITE_LOCATION="$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)"- This reply was modified 6 days, 18 hours ago by RJP.
Very good script, but there should be a warning that it kills running programs from desktop too.
I guess it depend on the program, I run the script while downloading a file with Brave browser, and it didn’t close browser, it show a massage if I wan’t to exit, either way I add a warning.
antixcat
Thank you for this. I was looking for a way to do this specifically and this works great.
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Hello
It closes tint2. (ft10-transformation)Hello
It closes tint2. (ft10-transformation)I’m guessing this is a bad thing, and you want to keep tint2?
If that so, here the script with one window exception, that will not close.
#!/bin/bash # # Close all windows 1.1 # With exception # WINDOWSID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}') NUMWIN=$(wmctrl -l | wc -l) # exception EXCP="tint2" EXCPID=$(wmctrl -l | grep -i "$EXCP" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') for ((i = 1 ; i <= $NUMWIN ; i++)); do ID=$(echo "$WINDOWSID" | head -$i | tail +$i) if [[ "$ID" != "$EXCPID" ]]; then wmctrl -i -c $ID fi done exit 0Make sure the name of exception (EXCP=”tint2″) is the name you want to exclude, you can check with:
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Robin
Hello Lead Farmer,
great Idea, your script.
I’d propose another exception:
If aCSTV is set to a recording, it’s a really bad idea to close it by your script. This would ruin your current recording.To avoid this, while still being able to close it with your script in non-recording mode, you’d simply need to check for its recording flag file, which is only present when a recording is running:
Search for “/dev/shm/aCSTV-$$05.tmp” wherein $$ stands for the arbitrary PID of the currently running aCSTV instance, which might have different number of digits depending on what the system has assigned.
e.g.
aCSTV-386286105.tmpIf this file is present, don’t close the window-ID of aCSTV and also not the window ID of MPV. Both are involved in recording. Besides of this, aCSTV shuts down properly and completely when applying the command found in your script. aCSTV was designed to make sure to clean up and close all its background tasks on its own, if the GUI window was closed. So I’m a bit concerned what happens if your script tries to shut down the MPV window separately the same time aCSTV itself shuts down this very MPV instance already. This will need some testing to make your script run reliable. The behaviuor of your script to close down all windows from the wm list without caring for their child or background processes could be easily an issue for other scripts or programs as well.
When adding the exception to your code, be aware there are multiple aCSTV-…tmp files present in /dev/shm while running, the significant part you’ll have to check for is the last two digits of the .tmp filename starting with „aCSTV-”, reading „05”.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
Hi @robin thanks for the suggestion, I didn’t find a recording package with the name “aCST” in the repos.
Not all programs will close when the script it running, for example if you didn’t save a file with a text editor like geany, you get a massage to save the document.You can check if the temp file temp exist and use the exception name EXCP=”aCSTV” to exclude aCSTV.
ACST=$(grep -r "aCSTV" /dev/shm/) if [[ "$ID" != "$EXCPID" && -n $ACST ]]; then wmctrl -i -c $ID fiBut you can add other apps that may kill running processes, so I thing it’s up to user to add them.
I will post a new version soon with an exception of “Package Installer” and “Synaptic Package Manager” to prevent killing a running update.
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Close all windows 1.2
1) Add exception of antiX – Updater, Synaptic Package Manager, Package Installer and antiX – autoremove, will not close when running the script.
2) Add your own exception, for example tint2 terminal.
# and an exception EXCP="tint2" EXCP_ID=$(wmctrl -l | grep -i "$EXCP" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}')- This reply was modified 1 day, 21 hours ago by Lead Farmer.
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I didn’t find a recording package with the name “aCST” in the repos.
Please see:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/acstv-update-to-new-version-1-09-fit-for-antix23/aCSTV (antiX Community Simple TV starter) is still just not in the repos by now, so you need to follow the install instructions given in the thread.
You can check if the temp file temp exist and use the exception name EXCP=”aCSTV” to exclude aCSTV.
This would exclude aCSTV even when not running a recording, but just playing TV, while the exclusion is actually only needed when a recording is running. So a bit of regex pattern magic will be needed to differenciate the aCSTV temp files. Only the one ending with „05” is significant for recording. I believe this is not a task a normal user would be able to add to your script, so I think best is you provide readymade presets for at least the programs commonly used in antiX, so the user can add them easily without needing to know about all the regex stuff.
Try instead:
ls /dev/shm | grep aCSTV-[[:digit:]]*05.tmp
Not sure whether I did it right, there are multiple different regex syntaxes specific for the different tools. Maybe I’ve mixed up the grep regex syntax with the sed regex syntax or the geany in-document search regex syntax… Please check yourself.Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
@Robin please test this:
#!/bin/bash # # Close all windows 1.3 # WINDOWS_ID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}') NUMBER_WINDOWS=$(wmctrl -l | wc -l) EXCP_ID="NULL" UPDATE_ID="NULL" ACSTV_ID="NULL" # Check if an updater/installer is running UPDATE=$(wmctrl -l | grep 'antiX - Updater\|Synaptic Package Manager\|Package Installer\|antiX - autoremove') if [[ -n $UPDATE ]]; then UPDATE_ID=$(wmctrl -l | grep -i "$UPDATE" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') fi # aCSTV is recording ACSTV=$(ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+\.tmp') if [[ -n $ACSTV ]]; then ACSTV_ID=$(wmctrl -l | grep -i "aCSTV" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') fi # and an exception #EXCP="id name" #EXCP_ID=$(wmctrl -l | grep -i "$EXCP" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') for ((i = 1 ; i <= $NUMBER_WINDOWS ; i++)); do ID=$(echo "$WINDOWS_ID" | head -$i | tail +$i) if [[ "$ID" != "$UPDATE_ID" && "$ID" != "$ACSTV_ID" && "$ID" != "$EXCP_ID" ]]; then wmctrl -i -c $ID fi done exit 0@lead-farmer :
Unfortunately your command excludes aCSTV even when not recording. See the following sample output:aCSTV started, neither playing nor recording:
$ ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+\.tmp' aCSTV-195866501.tmp aCSTV-195866502.tmp aCSTV-195866503.tmp aCSTV-195866506.tmp aCSTV-195866507.tmp aCSTV-195866508.tmp aCSTV-195866509.tmp aCSTV-195866512.tmp aCSTV-195866515.tmp aCSTV-195866518.tmp aCSTV-195866519.tmp $ ls /dev/shm | grep aCSTV-[[:digit:]]*05.tmp (no output)aCSTV playing a TV station:
$ ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+\.tmp' aCSTV-195866501.tmp aCSTV-195866502.tmp aCSTV-195866503.tmp aCSTV-195866504.tmp aCSTV-195866506.tmp aCSTV-195866507.tmp aCSTV-195866508.tmp aCSTV-195866509.tmp aCSTV-195866510.tmp aCSTV-195866511.tmp aCSTV-195866512.tmp aCSTV-195866515.tmp aCSTV-195866518.tmp aCSTV-195866519.tmp $ ls /dev/shm | grep aCSTV-[[:digit:]]*05.tmp (no output)As you can see, there is now an additional file ending with the two digits „11”, which stands for playback mode.
aCSTV recording a stream:
$ ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+\.tmp' aCSTV-195866501.tmp aCSTV-195866502.tmp aCSTV-195866503.tmp aCSTV-195866504.tmp aCSTV-195866505.tmp aCSTV-195866506.tmp aCSTV-195866507.tmp aCSTV-195866508.tmp aCSTV-195866509.tmp aCSTV-195866510.tmp aCSTV-195866512.tmp aCSTV-195866515.tmp aCSTV-195866518.tmp aCSTV-195866519.tmp $ ls /dev/shm | grep aCSTV-[[:digit:]]*05.tmp aCSTV-195866505.tmpAs you can see, the file ending with the digits „05” stands for recording mode, which is the one actually in need to exclude. And you can see the difference in output between the command you’ve used and my proposal for the grep regex.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
@Robin so if the file end with “05” it mean that is recording? edit: I missed that part.
If so is the script work if change it, douse it exclude aCSTV when recording?
ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+05\.tmp‘
or yours
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@lead-farmer Two times yes:
– Yes you’ve got it. The presence of its temp file ending with the digits „05” in /dev/shm means aCSTV is currently recording, (while the file ending with the digits „11” means aCSTV is currently playing a TV stream)– Yes, I can confirm both commands from your latest posting work equivalent catching the proper flag file for the aCSTV recording mode. So I guess you can use
ls /dev/shm | grep -Po 'aCSTV-\d+05\.tmp'
within your script to properly catch the recording condition.Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
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