Start a child process , and make it maximized by PID

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Sun May 6 01:42:36 PDT 2012


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Hi,
>        Can anyone provide a sample on how to maximize / minimize an
>        application by its PID ?

Not by PID, but I am pretty sure you can make a hack to do what you
wanted to by using xdotool:
http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/

To do this properly, you should instead add an option to your (child)
program to start maximized (like the xterm -maximized option).

Tormod



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