is it possible to control the windows of an external app

Posted by ali on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by ali
Published on 2010-04-23T13:56:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 2:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 377

Filed under:

gtk

|

python

|

c++

|

linux

|

gnome

I want to take the control of the window

for exmple i want to force to external app to start minimized

I mean when i enter this command

myapp Firefox

Firefox starts but minimized

firefox is not important I mean i want to do it with any gui application

If yes

can any body show me the way?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about gtk

Hot to fix nautilus desktop on linux mint

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
so I'm using Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon and suddenly there are no icons on the desktop and the right click doesn't work, it's like the desktop doesn't start up at all, but the Cinnamon interface and everything else are working just fine. This happens only when I open the session with Cinnamon, if… >>> More
Portable C Compiler (pcc) with GTK+ in Code::Blocks

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I had some problems when trying to compile a GTK+ program with Portable C Compiler (pcc) using Code::Blocks in Windows. When I tried to build the default GTK+ project in Code::Blocks, I get these errors: -------------- Build: Debug in cb-temp2 --------------- Compiling: main.c C:\CMPITG\gtk\include\glib-2… >>> More
Mono and GTK#, installing problem with gtk#

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I've been trying and trying to install gtk# into mono, but I can't seem to install gtk# I've downloaded the tarball, used ./configure, and I get this: Configuration summary Installation prefix = /usr/local C# compiler: /usr/bin/mcs -define:GTK_SHARP_2_6 -define:GTK_SHARP_2_8 -define:GTK_SHARP_2_10… >>> More
"Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: " when using execve to launch a Gtk program on ubuntu

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I have the following c program which launches a Gtk Program on ubuntu: #include <unistd.h> int main( int argc, const char* argv[] ) { char *args[2] = { "testarg", 0 }; char *envp[1] = { 0 }; execve("/home/michael/MyGtkApp",args,envp); } I get "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open… >>> More
Custom GTK widget to bypass GTK layout engine?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have an application layer that I'd like to port to Gtk that has all it's own layout code and I don't really want to spend 'n' months re-writting it to work with the Gtk layout system, but rather just using the existing internal layout code and have Gtk render the resulting widgets. I've started… >>> More

Related posts about python

unmet dependencies in Ubuntu 12.04

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I tried today to install a dvb-card on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Linux blauhai-linux 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ). The installation failed with an error. After that, i tried to install python (it was already installed but i got this error): linux:~$… >>> More
How can I get sikuli-ide to work?

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I installed sikuli-ide with sudo apt-get install sikuli-ide Everything was fine until I tried to start it from the terminal. I typed sikuli-ide But the only response I got was [info] locale: en_US The application was not started, furthermore there is no desktop file and sikuli-ide does not… >>> More
Getting PATH right for python after MacPorts install

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I can't import some python libraries (PIL, psycopg2) that I just installed with MacPorts. I looked through these forums, and tried to adjust my PATH variable in $HOME/.bash_profile in order to fix this but it did not work. I added the location of PIL and psycopg2 to PATH. I know that Terminal is… >>> More
call python with system() in R to run a python script emulating the python console

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I want to pass a chunk of Python code to Python in R with something like system('python ...'), and I'm wondering if there is an easy way to emulate the python console in this case. For example, suppose the code is "print 'hello world'", how can I get the output like this in R? >>> print… >>> More
Python - Calling a non python program from python?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I am currently struggling to call a non python program from a python script. I have a ~1000 files that when passed through this C++ program will generate ~1000 outputs. Each output file must have a distinct name. The command I wish to run is of the form: program_name -input -output -o1 -o2… >>> More