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Showing and hiding the desktop in Gnome

July 23rd, 2007 · Comments

Gnome has a button that you can add to a panel to show/hide the desktop, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to bind that action to a key. Today I learned about the wmctrl program, which can perform many window-manager operations, so I put together this simple script which toggles the “show the desktop” state:

#!/bin/bash # Toggle the [...]

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