How to close all windows of a given program at once

[some1]

@amigo
Thank you

[Puppus Dogfellow]

The filer does keep a per-window history which can be accessed by right-clicking on the filer window and choosing:
Window -> Previous (in a new or same window)

I long ago adapted the old patch mentioned earlier which adds a button to the toolbar to provide the 'Back' feature -but to the gtk-1.2 version of rox.

As I remember, the patch is not too hard to wrangle into the sources, but there is no way to 'patch' the already-compiled binary.

not sure about your machine, amigo, but on mine the right click gives Parent, not Previous.

[amigo]

Ah, right you are -I hadn't looked at that patch for a long time.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

Ah, right you are -I hadn't looked at that patch for a long time.

alas.

[MochiMoppel]

I tinkered with the code lately and came up with a slightly improved version. See original post.

[TwoPuppies]

Thanks for a really useful thread.

Getting right back to the original post, is there a variant of this that will close ALL the windows on the current desktop, or ALL windows on ALL desktops? That is to say, not just ROX-Filer windows OR the windows of a specified application, but both at the same time.

[drunkjedi]

Thanks for a really useful thread.

Getting right back to the original post, is there a variant of this that will close ALL the windows on the current desktop, or ALL windows on ALL desktops? That is to say, not just ROX-Filer windows OR the windows of a specified application, but both at the same time.

To close all programs and windows, and make your desktop clean just restart X.

[TwoPuppies]

To close all programs and windows, and make your desktop clean just restart X.

Yep. Knew that. I was just wondering if there was another form of the scripts / commands under discussion that did the same thing.

[tallboy]

Hi MochiMoppel.
I really don't have enough knowledge to comment code, so I may be totally wrong here, but isn't XKillClient something you could use?

http://linux.die.net/man/3/xkillclient

Here is an interesting question related to the problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3073 ... ents-child

tallboy

[MochiMoppel]

To close all programs and windows, and make your desktop clean just restart X.

I take this as a joke

I may be totally wrong here, but isn't XKillClient something you could use?

Thanks for trying to help, but I don't see what this does and most of all: I don't have any problem .

is there a variant of this that will close ALL the windows on the current desktop, or ALL windows on ALL desktops?

Well, yes, I once made several variants, some of them using Xdialog and some do what you are asking for, but I only published the "mild" version that you find here in this thread. Closing all windows is pretty radical and since I don't like cascading "Are you really sure?" dialogs I keep the potentially harmful stuff in my closet.

Nevertheless closing all windows can be very useful right before shutdown and I remember this thread where I - unsuccessfully - tried to convince other forum members that Puppy's usual shutdown process kills all windows instead of closing them and that this method can lead to data loss. For closing all windows on all desktops you can use something like this:

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WIN_ID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}')
for i in $WIN_ID; do
	wmctrl -ic $i
done

[TwoPuppies]

For closing all windows on all desktops you can use something like this:

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WIN_ID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}')
for i in $WIN_ID; do
	wmctrl -ic $i
done

Excellent. Thank you.

[MochiMoppel]

User gychang requested here to close all minimized windows at once.

One way to do this:

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WIN_ID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}') 
for i in $WIN_ID; do 
[[ $(xprop -id $i WM_STATE) = *Iconic* ]] && wmctrl -ic $i
done

[gychang]

User gychang requested here to close all minimized windows at once.

One way to do this:

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WIN_ID=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{print $1}') 
for i in $WIN_ID; do 
[[ $(xprop -id $i WM_STATE) = *Iconic* ]] && wmctrl -ic $i
done

this script works well!