sending a window manager command?

[Ulli Horlacher]

I want to send a window manager command to a certain window via shell
script.

On Ubuntu I found:

  Wmctrl is a command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible
  X Window Manager (examples include Enlightenment, icewm, kwin, metacity,
  and sawfish).

  Wmctrl provides command line access to almost all the features defined
  in the EWMH specification. For example it can maximize windows, make
  them sticky, set them to be always on top. It can switch and resize
  desktops and perform many other useful operations.

I testet it then with:

wmctrl -l
wmctrl -r 0x03200024 -b toggle,fullscreen # 0x03200024 is my xterm

But it does nothing.

Is wmctrl not compatible with xfce?
Is there another solution?


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