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Apparently, there's no way to minimize a window progammatically in anything X11 or Wayland. And the X people, at least, made that design decision on purpose. A weird thing to me is that the window manager, the only thing that is supposed to minimize windows, doesn't have some sort of interface to

19/2/26, 11:41 pm0 reposts0 likes

danceswithcrows

@crow202.com

19 Feb

say, "Hey, I would like to minimize window N." Obviously, hacking wmctrl to take a -z (window) option and passing _NET_WM_ACTION_MINIMIZE if the window matches didn't work. kwin does not expose this functionality via DBUS either. This seems like a weird missing feature since wmctrl by itself

danceswithcrows

@crow202.com

19 Feb

can move and resize windows, change window titles, change the active window, change the number of virtual desktops, and close windows. All of which seem potentially more disruptive/invasive than minimizing a window.