Re:Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automa...
by heavyset_go on Saturday February 12, 2022 @11:19PM
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There's also wmctrl and xprop.
http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl/
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/wmctrl/
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-automate-your...
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xprop.1.html
The 'Tips' section of the first link also has several other utilities that are pertinent: http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl/#tips
It looks like I could write a little script using some of xdotools built in tools for cursor coordinates, active window info and geometry etc that would be pretty useful. As a quick solution it could alert using notify-send on a key combination, although figuring out how to append the data to the cursor overlay would be even nicer.