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lawrencegoodman

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Saturday, February 14th 2004, 10:51pm

Command Line Toggle Desktop

Does anyone know of way fmor the command line of minimizing all windows and just showing the desktop? I have searched through kdcop and found nothing.

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Sunday, February 15th 2004, 11:46am

This one is a little tricky.
The ShowDesktop is not directly accessible only the buttons itself via the Qt-DCOP bridge.

The Qt-DCOP bridge allows to call slots on Qt objects, in this case the button for showing the desktop.

[code:1]
dcop kicker $(dcop kicker qt objects | grep ShowDesktop | head -n 1 | sed "s#(# #g" | awk '{ print $1; }') toggle
[/code:1]

The part in $() transforms the object ID into a useable from for dcop.

dcop kicker qt objects
lists all qt objects of kicker

The grep filters the button. If one looks for a certain option, grepping for usualy names is the only way to find it (short of looking into the application source)
In this case I tried "desktop" and then "Desktop".

The commands after grep remove the unnecessary output, there might be better ways to do this :)

toggle is the actual action invoced on the button.

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lawrencegoodman

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 1:56pm

Wow! Thanks very much. It works!