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I have created a Pomodoro Timer which runs in a seperate terminal window. I want this timer to always remain on top of other windows.

While searching for an answer, I found this: How can I keep Terminal always on top of other windows?.

But, this would mean that whenever I run my script, I'll have to manually right click the title bar and select "Always on top".

I was wondering if there is a temporary terminal command for that (which I can add to my code), so that it can keep the particular terminal window on top. (and the setting resets on closing the terminal, i.e. it is not permanent.)

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  • wmctrl -i -r <window id> -b add,above or wmctrl -r "window name" -b add,above
    – kenn
    May 31, 2020 at 13:19
  • How to get the Window ID, I have seen xwininfo -display :0 but it requires the user to manually select the window. @kenn
    – Martin Medro
    May 31, 2020 at 13:23
  • You can use window name in quotes as well.
    – kenn
    May 31, 2020 at 13:27
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    @aakash Ah, I see, I misunderstood the question.
    – pomsky
    May 31, 2020 at 13:44
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    This may help to give the terminal a unique name then raise it based on title: askubuntu.com/questions/516223/…
    – vanadium
    May 31, 2020 at 14:49

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The answer is :

  1. Install wmctrl
  2. Open a terminal and type wmctrl -l. You will see a list of windows and processes.
  3. Type : wmctrl -i -r $windowId -b add,above (please replace $windowId by the window id of step 2)

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