How to set and get window position and size from command line?

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How to set and get window position and size from command line?

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How to set and get window position and size from command line or programatically?

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Re: How to set and get window position and size from command line?

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If you have window wmctrl installed you can do these things with commands and options.

Here's the man page for it. It's available in just about every linux distribution repo and built in to most puppy OS's:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/wmctrl

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Re: How to set and get window position and size from command line?

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have some widows opened then try in a terminal:

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wmctrl -p -G -l
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