Getting and setting window size and position

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 14:26 +0300, Jack wrote:
> The question is how to obtain the active window's current
> X,Y,width,height so that I may calculate the new values which are
> compatible with the utility command (which one is the best?) which can
> correctly interpret the values and position the window to the EXACT
> (bit-by-bit) location and size?

The second script from my first reply (named "wing") does this:

   #!/bin/dash
   xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $(xdotool getactivewindow) | zenity --text-info
   exit

You need to make the dash script executable. You probably need to
install https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zenity or to replace it by
something else.

You need to assign the script to a shortcut or to add it to the menu.
When not using fbpanel you need to provide a wing.desktop file to add it
to the menu. If you would run it from a terminal, the terminal would be
the active window.

The first and third scripts do the same thing, so to speak, instead of
showing the info by zenity:

   eval $(xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $(xdotool getactivewindow))