A script that switches between windows matching the same window class. If no such window can be found, treat the rest of the command line as the command to start.
Requirements
This script depends on scsh, herbstluftwm, wmctrl, and hlwm-switch-to-window.
Installation
Put the hlwm-run-or-raise script anywhere in your $PATH.
Usage
Call the hlwm-run-or-raise script with 2 or more arguments:
- class
- The first argument is the class of the window to look for. This is a regular expression, so that multiple classes can be specified at once. This is matched against the
WM_CLASSwindow property (see the output ofxprop). - command
- Any other command-line arguments are used to start the program that should create a window with the given class.
Examples
This call will switch between any windows with the class “Emacs”, or start the program emacsclient --create-frame if no windows with that class can be found.
hlwm-run-or-raise Emacs emacsclient --create-frame
This call will switch between windows with any of the classes “URxvt”, “Hyper”, or “kitty”. If no window with any of those classes is found, the program kitty is called to create one.
hlwm-run-or-raise "\(URxvt\|Hyper\|kitty\)" kitty