Window id of xterm started

Julian Bradfield jcb+fdt at julianbradfield.org
Mon Feb 12 13:02:43 UTC 2024


On 2024-02-10, Riza Dindir <riza.dindir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am starting xterm in my xinitrc. Is it possible to get the window id of
> that xterm?

I usually do the trick already mentioned of giving it an identifying
title or name, and looking for that.

However, since it's xterm, you can do something like
 xterm -e 'echo $WINDOWID >/tmp/myxtermwid ; exec bash'
(You could also get fancy with named pipes, but then the error
handling is a bit harder.)


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