Close all window in a window manager

zghh · 12-20-2006, 03:06 PM

Hi,

I'm looking for a script that close all the windows running in a window manager (icewm in my case). I found the following code in this forum:

for app in `wmctrl `; do
wmctrl -c "$app"
done

It closes some windows but not all (firefox with mutliple tabs open for instance asks for a confirmation).

How to kill all the other windows once this firts script has been run ?

Thanks for any help

zghh · 12-20-2006, 03:18 PM

Just found an answer:

for app in `wmctrl -l `; do
wmctrl -c "$app"
done

sleep 1

for app in ` wmctrl -l | cut -d' ' -f 1 `; do
xkill -id "$app"
done

Howether, for the second part (killing the windows that did not closed in the first loop), I would prefer sending a SIGKILL signal, if someone has a soution how to do that..