[RndTbl] bringing background app to front

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 11:58:05 CDT 2007


Montana Quiring wrote:
> A friend of mine asked the question:
> "Is there a commandline utility that can bring a running application
> such as xmms to the foreground?"
> I wonder if it might be WM specific.
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	I think there was one. Maybe you could look at the fg and bg commands. 
It's been a while since I've done it (around 15 years in fact). I wasn't 
able to find a man page for it in Ubuntu so I wonder how accurate my 
memory is.

				Later
				Mike



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