[DWM] List applications and switch to tag

Question

I'm having troubles with keeping track of my applications in DWM.
Is there any way to run a command and figure out:
1) My running applications (xlsclients maybe?)
2) More importantly, which tag a given window is in
3) Finally, switch to that tag to view the window.
My final goal would be to incorporate it in dmenu, if possible.
My knowledge of C is quite limited, but I'm fluent in Bash/zsh, so would prefer a scritable solution.

Answer 1

jasonwryan wrote:Just a thought. Carry on regardless...
And so I did. I just hacked a script that actually does this. It depends on xdotool and dmenu.
plugin-container is removed, since it's flash running inside Firefox in my case.
#!/bin/bash
# Search through open programs and switch to their tag
application=$(
# List all running programs
xlsclients |\
# Fix Virtualbox and LibreOffice
sed -e 's/.*VirtualBox/foobar virtualbox/g' -e 's/.*soffice/foobar libreoffice/g' |\
# Remove flash from results
grep -v "plugin-container" |\
# Show only app-names
cut -d" " -f3 |\
# Pipe to dmenu ($@ to include font settings from dwm/config.h)
dmenu -i -p "Switch to" $@
# Switch to chosen application
case $application in
gimp | truecrypt)
xdotool search --onlyvisible -classname "$application" windowactivate &> /dev/null
xdotool search ".*${application}.*" windowactivate &> /dev/null
esac
Last edited by graph (2013-01-03 10:54:50)