Xraise

A command to raise X Window, which is like a following shell script but faster.

command="..."

while read line; do
  pid="$(echo "$line" | cut -d" " -f4)"
  if [ "x${command}" = "x$(cat "/proc/${pid}/cmdline")" ]; then
    window_id="$(echo "$line" | cut -d" " -f1)"
    exec wmctrl -i -R "$window_id"
  fi
done <<< "$(wmctrl -l -p)"

exec "${command}"

Installation

$ cargo install xraise

Usage

$ xraise
24183 /opt/google/chrome/chrome: 'GitHub - Google Chrome'
24183 /opt/google/chrome/chrome: 'LINE'
22179 /usr/lib/slack/slack: 'Slack - k0kubun'
26781 /usr/share/nocturn/Nocturn: 'Nocturn'
27546 urxvt: 'urxvt'

# Activate or launch slack, urxvt
$ xraise /usr/lib/slack/slack
$ xraise urxvt

# Activate or launch Google Chrome, LINE
$ xraise /opt/google/chrome/chrome "Google Chrome" # tail match
$ xraise /opt/google/chrome/chrome LINE

License

MIT License