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schiggn
Asked: 2013-02-19 06:07:51 +0800 CST

Startup Application in SELECTED terminal

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I am running on Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to run an application on startup, in a maximized terminal, selected. I solved all problems exept the last one. so for now i have 

gnome-terminal --maximize -x /home/user/myapp

which runs the application in a maximized terminal, but it is never selected that inputs are possible. the system should work without keyboard and mouse (only barcode scanner)

12.04

2 Answers

  1. I believe wmctrl can do that

    sudo apt-get install wmctrl

    supposing you only have one instance of gnome-terminal running you can do 

    wmctrl -a gnome-terminal

    to set focus to the it

    see man wmctrl for details

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  2. Perhaps try the --full-screen flag instead. This has subtly different behaviour from maximise (it should now show over any other UI) but should also keep focus. Failing that, you could always script something separately to give the window focus with xdotool (or another similar tool).

    Failing that, you could just stick a sleep 10; in before the gnome-terminal command. The delay caused would likely mean that nothing grabbed the focus back off the term.

    But perhaps Gnome is the problem here. If this is a single-purpose machine, you might do better to dump the Gnome and its window manager completely. You could either fly solo and build a dirty little nodm environment (just nodm, and an ~/.xsession file to run your terminal), or go for a tiling window manager (awesome, xmonad, etc) that is better purposed for terminal-priority things.

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