I am using shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T for opening a new Terminal window. I am using one of the terminal very often (calculator and simple commands) and I want to set up another shortcut (like Ctrl+Alt+R or any other, I don't care) to switch to this specific terminal window (using gnome-terminal in Unity, Ubuntu 12.04).
Is this possible (and how)?
There is an application called wmctrl, which can help you. You can install wmctrl by command:
# apt-get install wmctrl
You can get list of currently existing windows by wmctrl -l and see titles and names of currently existing windows. Using titles, you can raise a window by:
$ wmctrl -a <string>
To automatize this procedure, you can start specific gnome-terminal with --title parameter to set its window title. Assuming you've run:
$ gnome-terminal --title=testing
You can run:
$ wmctrl -a "testing"
to raise that window, beware of that the string you used to select window should be specific to that window, shouldn't match with any other window's title.
