In general the answer is going to depend on some combination of your window manager and/or the desktop you're using. For KDE there's probably some sort of dcop incantation you can send to it, but without a bit more details you may not get anything more specific.

And the language is Perl, the implementation is perl; "PERL" is just wrong.

Update: Actually after thinking over it there may be some sort of window manager hints you can send, but I can't recall what you'd want to search on to track information about them down. It'd also be fairly low-level X11 calls so it wouldn't be really easy to do from perl either.

Update 2: Yeah, that wmctl below implements the thing I was thinking about. Running that through system is going to be your best bet.

In reply to Re: Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows by Fletch
in thread Need Help: Minimize, Maximize UNIX windows by mnj200g

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