I have a particular need, while I write the notes with Evernote on a firefox window, I need to send back the video lesson on another firefox window.
The video lessons can be either on youtube or on other sites that use Wistia.
I managed, via xdotool and xbindkeys, to send the command but only with an open firefox window, if I have another open firefox window, so with 2 open firefox windows, the command doesn't work.
Basically I have to send the command with xdotool to a firefox window with a certain url in the open tab, for example a tab which is www.youtube.com
#!/bin/bash
xdotool search --class firefox key --window %@ Left
Is it possibile to do that? How can I do that?
EDIT:
I tried two solutions but they don't work 100%, in fact the command is sent to the active firefox window, or the last one activated if I run the script from the console.
Solution 1:
pids=$(xdotool search --class "firefox")
for pid in $pids; do
name=$(xdotool getwindowname $pid)
if [[ $name == *"finestradellevideolezioni"* ]]; then
echo $name
xdotool key --window $pid Left
fi
done
Solution 2:
xdotool search --name "finestradellevideolezioni" key Left
I changed the title of the firefox window with the video lessons, uniquely.
Furthermore, when I run the Solution1 script from the console, the output is exact, the title of the exact window is printed, the one with the modified title.
