ok, I managed to code a script for that, you may find it usefull to provide similar functionality to other situations. If yo do so I would like to know too :)
Also if there is a better way to do that I would like to know too :)
the beggining variables are your options
#!/bin/bash -i waitStart=5 delayRaiseTabOutliner=0.1 screenLeftMarginOpen=10 screenLeftMarginClose=200 bUseScreenLeftMarginClose=false bGoToChromiumWhenTablinkIsDoubleClicked=true function FUNCparent() { xwininfo -tree -id $1 |grep "Parent window id" } function FUNCparentest() { local check=`printf %d $1` local parent=-1 local parentest=-1 #echo "Child is: $check" >&2 while ! FUNCparent $check |grep -q "(the root window)"; do #echo "a $check" >&2 #DEBUG info xwininfo -id $check |grep "Window id" >&2 #report parent=`FUNCparent $check |egrep -o "0x[^ ]* "` parent=`printf %d $parent` check=$parent sleep 1 done if((parent!=-1));then parentest=$parent fi if((parentest!=-1));then echo $parentest #echo "Parentest is: $check" >&2 else echo $1 #echo "Child has no parent." >&2 fi } while true; do list=(`xdotool search Chromium 2>/dev/null`) chromiumWindowId="" for windowId in `echo ${list[*]}`; do if xwininfo -id $windowId |grep "Window id" |egrep -oq " - Chromium\"$"; then chromiumWindowId=$windowId xwininfo -id $chromiumWindowId |grep "Window id" #report break; fi done if [[ -z "$chromiumWindowId" ]]; then sleep $waitStart continue; fi list=(`xdotool search "Tabs Outliner" 2>/dev/null`) tabsOutlinerWindowId="" for windowId in `echo ${list[*]}`; do if xwininfo -id $windowId |grep "Window id" |egrep -oq "\"Tabs Outliner\"$"; then tabsOutlinerWindowId=`FUNCparentest $windowId` xwininfo -id $tabsOutlinerWindowId |grep "Window id" #report break; fi done if [[ -z "$tabsOutlinerWindowId" ]]; then sleep $waitStart continue; fi previousWindowId=-1 previousChromeTabName="" while true; do # check if chromium is still running if ! xdotool getwindowname $chromiumWindowId 2>&1 >/dev/null; then break; fi if ! xdotool getwindowname $tabsOutlinerWindowId 2>&1 >/dev/null; then break; fi # info about window below mouse (even if have not focus) eval `xdotool getmouselocation --shell 2>/dev/null` windowId=$WINDOW mouseX=$X mouseY=$Y # not working yet... # must work only if over chromium application windows #activeWindow=`xdotool getactivewindow` #activeWindow=`FUNCparentest $activeWindow` #echo "windowId=$windowId, chromiumWindowId=$chromiumWindowId, tabsOutlinerWindowId=$tabsOutlinerWindowId, previousWindowId=$previousWindowId, activeWindow=$activeWindow" #DEBUG info # not working yet... # only allowed to work if chromium windows has focus # if((activeWindow!=chromiumWindowId && activeWindow!=tabsOutlinerWindowId));then # sleep $delayRaiseTabOutliner # continue # fi #echo "Chromium app is active." # from chromium to tabs outliner! if((windowId==chromiumWindowId));then if((mouseX<screenLeftMarginOpen));then xdotool windowactivate $tabsOutlinerWindowId echo "activate TabOutliner (`date`)" fi fi # from tabs outliner to chromium bActivatedChromium=false # when a tabs outliner tab is double clicked, it changes chromium window current tab! if $bGoToChromiumWhenTablinkIsDoubleClicked; then if((windowId==tabsOutlinerWindowId));then currentChromeTabName=`xprop -id $chromiumWindowId |grep "^WM_NAME(STRING) = \""` if [[ -z "$previousChromeTabName" ]]; then previousChromeTabName="$currentChromeTabName" fi if [[ "$currentChromeTabName" != "$previousChromeTabName" ]]; then xdotool windowactivate $chromiumWindowId bActivatedChromium=true fi previousChromeTabName="$currentChromeTabName" fi fi if $bUseScreenLeftMarginClose;then if((windowId==tabsOutlinerWindowId));then if((mouseX>screenLeftMarginClose));then xdotool windowactivate $chromiumWindowId bActivatedChromium=true fi fi else if((previousWindowId==tabsOutlinerWindowId));then if((windowId==chromiumWindowId));then xdotool windowactivate $chromiumWindowId bActivatedChromium=true fi fi fi if $bActivatedChromium; then echo "activate Chromium (`date`)" fi previousWindowId=$windowId sleep $delayRaiseTabOutliner done done
