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Håkon Hægland
Asked: 2017-10-23 03:51:50 +0800 CST

How to determine gnome-terminal window ID in Ubuntu 17.10?

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In Ubuntu 17.04 I could use wmctrl to switch to a gnome-terminal window with given window ID: 

wmctrl -ia $gnome_term_winid

The window ID of a given gnome-terminal could also be displayed from the terminal by typing:

echo $WINDOWID

After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10, this is no longer the case. First, echo $WINDOWID gives nothing, and also wmctrl -lx does not show any gnome-terminal windows.

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1 Answers

  1. wmctrl doesn't work properly in a Wayland session as controlling windows is against Wayland's security policy.

    wmctrl may work with the application windows running under the XWayland compatibility layer (for example Firefox). But gnome-terminal is an official GNOME app which doesn't run under XWayland so it fails.

    You may try to switch to an Xorg session as a workaround.

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