X11 window hider

#! /bin/sh
#REQUIRES XDOTOOL
#hidewindow - an X11 window-hiding shellscript
#hides current window, writes it's ID to a file at ~/hidden so showwindow can unhide it
#for best results, assign to a keyboard shortcut.

xdotool windowunmap `xdotool getwindowfocus | tee -a $HOME/hidden`



#! /bin/bash
#showwindow - an X11 window-unhiding shellscript
#requires bash and xdotool
#shows most recently hidden window first, run again to unhide the window hidden before that.
#only works if ~/hidden has the window ID's, hidewindow should write window ID's.
#for best results, assign to a keyboard shortcut.

export WINDOWID=`awk '/./{line=$0} END{print line}' $HOME/hidden`
if [[ -n "$WINDOWID" ]]; then
  xdotool windowmap $WINDOWID
  sed -i '/'${WINDOWID}'/d' $HOME/hidden
  export WINDOWID=
else
  echo "No hidden (unmapped) windows found in '$HOME/hidden'."
fi