Currently using Xfce and xfce4-terminal, but suggestions involving other Linux-based systems may still be helpful.I start a longish-running program in a terminal window, then alt-tab away and do other work. Is there a way to have a program in that session request that its window be marked 'Urgent' and/or 'Presented' to the user? When I'm writing a graphical program, say using GTK2, I can do that easily enough; it ought to be theoretically possible, but I don't know of a way to do it.
'Present' terminal window on shell/executable command?
terminal;x11;xfce;window management;xfce4 terminal
You could use wmctrl to tell the window manager to activate it (raise it and give it focus):wmctrl -ia $WINDOWID