[xmonad] trigger xmonad commands with shell script

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Sepp Tannhuber <sepp.tannhuber at yahoo.de>
wrote:

> I would like to raise a certain window from within a shell script.
> Is it possible to trigger xmonad to execute something like
>   raiseMaybe (runInTerm "-title myWindow" "myWindow") (title =? "myWindow")
> with a shell script? Or do you know any other possibility to raise a window
> from a shell?
>

There is no way to specify a ManageHook like that from a shell script. But
for just raising a window, include EwmhDesktops in your config (or start
your config from XMonad.Config.Desktop) and use `wmctrl`.

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