#!/bin/sh set -e # Function to place Firefox windows by desktops after restore session. # Firefox has long BUG https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650#c54 (created 2007-03-05!) which make hassle of windows! # I use at least 11 windows and it is very hard to place them on correct desktop each time. So I write that workaround. # # Partially idea borrowed from attempt https://github.com/zepalmer/script-vdr/blob/master/vdr, but I choose different approach: # instead of periodically save window titles into file (which is very unstable because of many tabs in each) I just label each window with custom label # by default match with desktop label (name). # # For set Firefox windows custom titles used extension (OpenSource): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/Firefox/addon/window-titler/ # # Now match is very simple - just one grep, but you may use regular expression or special symbols... # # Example: # I have few desktops with names: Egais, DevOps, Home # For Firefox windows I set tiltles accordingly (with extension) like "Home", then window title become: "[Home] Google - Mozilla Firefox" # And it give me abbility understand on which desktop it should be placed. # So I just call this function like: # placeWindowOnDesktop Home # # Voila. It place all windows which have word "Home" to desktop which name also contain word Home. It does not depends any more from tab opened in that window! # You may provide second argument to match desktop name if it is not same to match as for window, like: # placeWindowOnDesktop Home 'Second desktop' # # For more clever and automatic way distribute all windows {@see matchAllFirefoxWindowsByDesktops} function # # $1 - window sub-sting name. wmctrl by default find only first matching window, but we will place all, if more then one matched! # $2 - (optional) desktop sub-sting name. It is is not present - $1 used # # Direct way: wmctrl -r '[Egais]' -t $( deskName Egais ) function placeWindowOnDesktop(){ local _desk=( $(deskName ${2:-${1}}) ) # awk hack by: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18457486/print-rest-of-the-fields-in-awk/18457573#18457573 while read window; do window=( $window ) echo -e "Place window ⟪\E[010;92m${window[@]:1}(id=${window[0]})\E[0m⟫ to desktop ⟪\E[010;93m${_desk[@]:1}(id=${_desk[0]})\E[0m⟫" wmctrl -i -r ${window[0]} -t ${_desk[0]} done < <( wmctrl -l | grep -F "${1}" | awk '{$2=""; $3=""}1' ) } # $1 - desktop sub-sting name # Return window id and itsName like: "5 RDC (MSSQL to PG)" function deskName(){ wmctrl -d | grep "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1,14- } # Example of direct placement #placeWindowOnDesktop Egais #placeWindowOnDesktop RosReestr #placeWindowOnDesktop Home #placeWindowOnDesktop DevOps #placeWindowOnDesktop SensoPressTakt #placeWindowOnDesktop RDC #placeWindowOnDesktop ЦИК # Magic function to distribute all Firefox windows by its desktops automatically! # This is consider only Firefox windows, and get desktop tag-name from [] square brackets. # F.e. for windows: # $ wmctrl -lx | grep -F 'Navigator.Firefox' # 0x03a000c5 3 Navigator.Firefox 2.hubbitus.taskdata [Home] bash - Extract string from brackets - Stack Overflow - Mozilla Firefox # 0x03a000ad 5 Navigator.Firefox 2.hubbitus.taskdata [RDC] rdc-iac-ansible/cleaning-snapshots.sh at ebf2122335387a66cb043f0480d8f38e6a087d39 · RegDC/rdc-iac-ansible - Mozilla Firefox # 0x03a00089 5 Navigator.Firefox 2.hubbitus.taskdata [RDC] How to slice an array in Bash - Stack Overflow - Mozilla Firefox # 0x03a000b9 0 Navigator.Firefox 2.hubbitus.taskdata [Egais] Firefox desktop placement issue - Mozilla Firefox # Home, RDC and Egais will be searched in desktop names for place windows on it accordingly! function matchAllFirefoxWindowsByDesktops(){ for word in $( wmctrl -lx | grep -F 'Navigator.firefox' | awk -F"[][]" '{print $2}' | sort -u ); do placeWindowOnDesktop "[$word]" "$word" done } function matchAllNightlyWindowsByDesktops(){ for word in $( wmctrl -lx | grep -F 'Navigator.Nightly' | awk -F"[][]" '{print $2}' | sort -u ); do placeWindowOnDesktop "[$word]" "$word" done } matchAllFirefoxWindowsByDesktops matchAllNightlyWindowsByDesktops