After I navigate out to a webpage or editor, is there any way to bring all the open terminals back to the front in their original positions? It is a bit of a pain clicking the terminal icon and then bringing each one back individually.
Thanks!
Example:
You can press Alt+Tab to switch forward between windows and Alt+Shift+Tab to switch back between windows. This shortcut is made to work in almost all graphical operating systems. Yow can also use Super+W and arrow keys for the same purpose.
After you bring one terminal window in the front, press Alt+~ to bring all other terminal windows in the front one by one:
To automatically bring all open terminals in the front (not one by one as I described before) you will need to add a keyboard shortcut for the following script (script taken from Adobe's answer and improved considering that version of script hasn't worked for me):
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ];then
echo -e "Usage: `basename $0` PROGRAM_NAME
For example:
'`basename $0` gnome-terminal' for Terminal
'`basename $0` firefox' for Firefox
'`basename $0` chromium-browser' for Chromium
..."
exit 1
fi
pids=" $(pidof $@) "
if [ "$pids" = " " ]; then # the string " " contain two spaces
echo "There is no program named '$@' opened at the moment."
exit 1
fi
wmctrl -lp | while read identity desktop_number PID window_title; do
if [ "${pids/ $PID }" != "$pids" ]; then
wmctrl -ia $identity
fi
done
Don't forget to make the script executable:
chmod +x /path/to/script/script_name
After you test the script in terminal, you must to see:
