Listening for newly spawned windows - scripting

I have this command:
xprop -spy -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | awk '{print $5}'
And I need to modify its output for my script to receive an id of the latest spawned window. (My window manager automatically brings focus on a new window). I'm visualizing the end result as this:
1 line output that is either empty or filled with one word, when new window is spawned,
a glimpse of its id pop's up, then it gets stored.

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replace the kscreenlocker_greet

Sorry my English language
I need the following
If you launch the menu -Start -> Shutdown -> Lock
Then you can see the lock screen
Now press CTRL + ALT +F2
let's log in to this terminal under the root user
And let's see the running processes ps -eH | less
We will see the process tree, and who started whom
You can find the following
ksmserver -> kscreenlocker_greet
If you look at how kscreenlocker_greet was launched using ps -aux | grep greet
Then we will see the following
/usr/libexec/kf5/kscreenlocker_greet --immediateLock --ksldfd
Is it possible somewhere (I hope it's not hard code) to replace this command with another command or an application being launched? And if so, where can it be found? Very necessary!
I would like to replace the command call with another application.

Running and Dump Command Line on VB.net

i am new on VB.Net and dont know the methode for my purpose.
i have application called Monitor.exe running on command line(cmd.exe) with parameter
monitor.exe -o -i
and the output on command line have 3 line like this on success status
status device ready
device running 344 times
complete
or output like this if the process have an error
device error 3
please check the connection cable
My purpose is :
i want run this command line running with ordinary cmd.exe without showing the cmd.exe window with button
then i want to grab the result like "complete 344 times" when the status is complete as label text
or grab "error" word when the status have and error as a label text
your help would be very appriciate.
thanks

Running while loop to open new chrome window

I am running Selenium IDE and trying to write a while loop to open a new chrome window after closing one. I had several attempts with select windows but still unable to run the loop repeatedly.
Here is what I have:
Error:
while on ${var}<=2 Failed:
A window was not selected after closing the previous one, aborting playback.
This error appears because of wrong iterator. execute script | ${var} +1 | command doesn't increase variable var. This command should be replaced with execute script | return Number(${var}) +1; | var
Also You forget to select root window after closing new tab. So after the 10th command should be added select window | handle=${root} |

phpseclib: "CAT" command works randomly

I have a script that fetches data from a site.
Basically it is divided into two section.
1.executes commands on a remote machine and saves output in a file
2.read the contents of a file.
For some reason it works from time to time. Section 1 always works (checked the remote machine and found the files). The problem is related to cat.
I've added to my code the option to dump the results of "CAT" command to a file.
Sometimes it has info sometimes it doesn't. However the file is always created!
The nodes i'm querying are the same. Timeout of execution of Section 1 on a remote server is 11-12 secs.
Thanks beforehand.
$ssh->exec("rm toolkit/mybatch/$newfileid");
$ssh->exec("mobatch $newsiteid 'lt all;ue print -admitted;' toolkit/mybatch");
$ssh->setTimeout(15);
echo $ssh->exec('cat ' . escapeshellarg("toolkit/mybatch/$newfileid") . '| grep -A 10 \'$ ue print \' > toolkit/mybatch/traffic.txt');
$traffic = $ssh->exec("cat toolkit/mybatch/traffic.txt");
$traffic = substr($traffic,21,-16);
$ssh->disconnect();
echo $traffic;
I've updated the code above, however, it worked several times , but after deletion of old files, it only creates "traffic.txt" and sometimes it has info in it, sometimes no.
Also, the file "traffic.txtescapeshellarg" is not created anymore. So i was forced to go back to my previous solution and read the "traffic.txt".
So, the solution was very simple. All i needed to do is adding "timeout".
The final code:
$ssh->exec("rm toolkit/traffic/$newfileid");
$ssh->setTimeout(0);
$ssh->exec("mobatch $newsiteid 'lt all;ue print -admitted;' toolkit/traffic");
sleep(8);
$ssh->exec('cat ' . escapeshellarg("toolkit/traffic/$newfileid") . '| grep -A 10 \'$ ue print \' > toolkit/traffic/traffic.txt');
$traffic = $ssh->exec("cat toolkit/traffic/traffic.txt");
$traffic = substr($traffic,21,-83);
echo $traffic;

What must I know to use GNU Screen properly? [closed]

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I've just introduced a friend to GNU Screen and they're having a hard time getting used to it. That makes me think about the essential things he needs to know about the excellent Screen utility, the same things that you'd think worthwhile to teach someone, a beginner, from the ground up. What are some analogies and handy tips for remembering binds, etc.?
It would be awesome.
I've been using Screen for over 10 years and probably use less than half the features. So it's definitely not necessary to learn all its features right away (and I wouldn't recommend trying). My day-to-day commands are:
^A ^W - window list, where am I
^A ^C - create new window
^A space - next window
^A p - previous window
^A ^A - switch to previous screen (toggle)
^A [0-9] - go to window [0-9]
^A esc - copy mode, which I use for scrollback
I think that's it. I sometimes use the split screen features, but certainly not daily. The other tip is if screen seems to have locked up because you hit some random key combination by accident, do both ^Q and ^A ^Q to try to unlock it.
I couldn't get used to screen until I found a way to set a 'status bar' at the bottom of the screen that shows what 'tab' or 'virtual screen' you're on and which other ones there are. Here is my setup:
[roel#roel ~]$ cat .screenrc
# Here comes the pain...
caption always "%{=b dw}:%{-b dw}:%{=b dk}[ %{-b dw}%{-b dg}$USER%{-b dw}#%{-b dg}%H %{=b dk}] [ %= %?%{-b dg}%-Lw%?%{+b dk}(%{+b dw}%n:%t%{+b dk})%?(%u)%?%{-b dw}%?%{-b dg}%+Lw%? %{=b dk}]%{-b dw}:%{+b dw}:"
backtick 2 5 5 $HOME/scripts/meminfo
hardstatus alwayslastline "%{+b dw}:%{-b dw}:%{+b dk}[%{-b dg} %0C:%s%a %{=b dk}]-[ %{-b dw}Load%{+b dk}:%{-b dg}%l %{+b dk}] [%{-b dg}%2`%{+b dk}] %=[ %{-b dg}%1`%{=b dk} ]%{-b dw}:%{+b dw}:%<"
sorendition "-b dw"
[roel#roel ~]$ cat ~/scripts/meminfo
#!/bin/sh
RAM=`cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemFree" | awk -F" " '{print $2}'`
SWAP=`cat /proc/meminfo | grep "SwapFree" | awk -F" " '{print $2}'`
echo -n "${RAM}kb/ram ${SWAP}kb/swap"
[roel#roel ~]$
Ctrl+A ? - show the help screen!
If your friend is in the habit of pressing ^A to get to the beginning of the line in Bash, he/she is in for some surprises, since ^A is the screen command key binding. Usually I end up with a frozen screen, possibly because of some random key I pressed after ^A :-)
In those cases I try
^A s and ^A q block/unblock terminal scrolling
to fix that. To go to the beginning of a line inside screen, the key sequence is ^A a.
You can remap the escape key from Ctrl + A to be another key of your choice, so if you do use it for something else, e.g. to go to the beginning of the line in bash, you just need to add a line to your ~/.screenrc file. To make it ^b or ^B, use:
escape ^bB
From the command line, use names sessions to keep multiple sessions under control. I use one session per task, each with multiple tabs:
screen -ls # Lists your current screen sessions
screen -S <name> # Creates a new screen session called name
screen -r <name> # Connects to the named screen sessions
When using screen you only need a few commands:
^A c Create a new shell
^A [0-9] Switch shell
^A k Kill the current shell
^A d Disconnect from screen
^A ? Show the help
An excellent quick reference can be found here. It is worth bookmarking.
Some tips for those sorta familiar with screen, but who tend to not remember things they read in the man page:
To change the name of a screen window is very easy: ctrl+A shift+A.
Did you miss the last message from screen? ctrl+a ctrl+m will show it again for you.
If you want to run something (like tailing a file) and have screen tell you when there's a change, use ctrl+A shift+m on the target window. Warning: it will let you know if anything changes.
Want to select window 15 directly? Try these in your .screenrc file:
bind ! select 11
bind # select 12
bind \# select 13
bind $ select 14
bind % select 15
bind \^ select 16
bind & select 17
bind * select 18
bind ( select 19
bind ) select 10
That assigns ctrl+a shift+0 through 9 for windows 10 through 19.
Ctrl+A is the base command
Ctrl+A N = go to the ***N***ext screen
Ctrl+A P = go to the ***P***revious screen
Ctrl+A C = ***C***reate new screen
Ctrl+A D = ***D***etach your screen
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/34
I wrote that a couple of years ago, but it is still a good introduction that gets a lot of positive feedback.
I "must" add this: add
bind s
to your .screenrc, if You - like me - used to use split windows, as C-a S splits the actual window, but C-a s freezes it. So I just disabled the freeze shortcut.
Ctrl+a is a special key.
Ctrl+a d - [d]etach, leave programs (irssi?) in background, go home.
Ctrl+a c [c]reate a new window
Ctrl+a 0-9 switch between windows by number
screen -r - get back to detached session
That covers 90% of use cases. Do not try to show all the functionality at the single time.
Not really essential not solely related to screen, but enabling 256 colors in my terminal, GNU Screen and Vim improved my screen experience big time (especially since I code in Vim about 8h a day - there are some great eye-friendly colorschemes).
The first modification I make to .screenrc is to change the escape command. Not unlike many of you, I do not like the default Ctrl-A sequence because of its interference with that fundamental functionality in almost every other context. In my .screenrc file, I add:
escape `e
That's backtick-e.
This enables me to use the backtick as the escape key (e.g. to create a new screen, I press backtick-c, detach is backtick-d, backtick-? is help, backtick-backtick is previous screen, etc.). The only way it interferes (and I had to break myself of the habit) is using backtick on the command line to capture execution output, or pasting anything that contains a backtick. For the former, I've modified my habit by using the BASH $(command) convention. For the latter, I usually just pop open another xterm or detach from screen then paste the content containing the backtick. Finally, if I wish to insert a literal backtick, I simply press backtick-e.
There is some interesting work being done on getting a good GNU screen setup happening by default in the next version of Ubuntu Server, which includes using the bottom of the screen to show all the windows as well as other useful machine details (like number of updates available and whether the machine needs a reboot). You can probably grab their .screenrc and customise it to your needs.
The most useful commands I have in my .screenrc are the following:
shelltitle "$ |bash" # Make screen assign window titles automatically
hardstatus alwayslastline "%w" # Show all window titles at bottom line of term
This way I always know what windows are open, and what is running in them at the moment, too.
I use the following for ssh:
#!/bin/sh
# scr - Runs a command in a fresh screen
#
# Get the current directory and the name of command
wd=`pwd`
cmd=$1
shift
# We can tell if we are running inside screen by looking
# for the STY environment variable. If it is not set we
# only need to run the command, but if it is set then
# we need to use screen.
if [ -z "$STY" ]; then
$cmd $*
else
# Screen needs to change directory so that
# relative file names are resolved correctly.
screen -X chdir $wd
# Ask screen to run the command
if [ $cmd == "ssh" ]; then
screen -X screen -t ""${1##*#}"" $cmd $*
else
screen -X screen -t "$cmd $*" $cmd $*
fi
fi
Then I set the following bash aliases:
vim() {
scr vim $*
}
man() {
scr man $*
}
info() {
scr info $*
}
watch() {
scr watch $*
}
ssh() {
scr ssh $*
}
It opens a new screen for the above aliases and iff using ssh, it renames the screen title with the ssh hostname.
I like to set up a screen session with descriptive names for the windows. ^a A will let you give a name to the current window and ^a " will give you a list of your windows.
When done, detach the screen with ^a d and re-attach with screen -R
I like to use screen -d -RR to automatically create/attach to a given screen. I created bash functions to make it easier...
function mkscreen
{
local add=n
if [ "$1" == '-a' ]; then
add=y
shift;
fi
local name=$1;
shift;
local command="$*";
if [ -z "$name" -o -z "$command" ]; then
echo 'Usage: mkscreen [ -a ] name command
-a Add to .bashrc.' 1>&2;
return 1;
fi
if [ $add == y ]; then
echo "mkscreen $name $command" >> $HOME/.bashrc;
fi
alias $name="/usr/bin/screen -d -RR -S $name $command";
return 0;
}
function rmscreen
{
local delete=n
if [ "$1" == '-d' ]; then
delete=y
shift;
fi
local name=$1;
if [ -z "$name" ]; then
echo 'Usage: rmscreen [ -d ] name
-d Delete from .bashrc.' 1>&2;
return 1;
fi
if [ $delete == y ]; then
sed -i -r "/^mkscreen $name .*/d" $HOME/.bashrc;
fi
unalias $name;
return 0;
}
They create an alias to /usr/bin/screen -d -RR -S $name $command. For example, I like to use irssi in a screen session, so in my .bashrc (beneath those functions), I have:
mkscreen irc /usr/bin/irssi
Then I can just type irc in a terminal to get into irssi. If the screen 'irc' doesn't exist yet then it is created and /usr/bin/irssi is run from it (which connects automatically, of course). If it's already running then I just reattach to it, forcibly detaching any other instance that is already attached to it. It's quite nice.
Another example is creating temporary screen aliases for perldocs as I come across them:
mkscreen perlipc perldoc perlipc
perlipc # Start reading the perldoc, ^A d to detach.
...
# Later, when I'm done reading it, or at least finished
# with the alias, I remove it.
rmscreen perlipc
The -a option (must be first argument) appends the screen alias to .bashrc (so it's persistent) and -d removes it (these can potentially be destructive, so use at own risk). xD
Append:
Another bash-ism that I find convenient when working a lot with screen:
alias sls='/usr/bin/screen -ls'
That way you can list your screens with a lot fewer keystrokes. I don't know if sls collides with any existing utilities, but it didn't at the time on my system so I went for it.
^A A switches back to the screen you just came from.
Ctrl + A is a great special character for Unix people, but if you're using screen to talk to OpenVMS, then not being able to ^A is going to make you bald prematurely.
In VMS, if you're editing a DCL command prior to execution from the history buffer, Insert mode is off (it has to be for a few reasons I won't get into here) ... to turn it on so you don't over-type your command rather than space things out, you have to hit `^A.