NAME

wselect − connect a window to the keyboard

SYNOPSIS

wselect [window_spec]

DESCRIPTION

This command makes the specified window the selected window, that is, the one attached to the keyboard and the buttons on the optional mouse or stylus switch on the optional tablet.  By default, if you give no window_specs, the window selected is the one which is the standard input to wselect. See windows(1) for an explanation of window_spec.

The selected window is highlighted by having a line through the center of its border. 

EXAMPLES

wselect
Select the window connected to standard input. If it was not already selected, this can only be done from a shell script.

wselect win8
Attach the keyboard to window "win8".

SEE ALSO

windows(1), wborder(1), wcreate(1), wdestroy(1), wdisp(1), wfont(1), wlist(1), wmove(1), wsh(1), wsize(1), wautoselect(3W), wselect(3W). 

DIAGNOSTICS

The following diagnostic values are returned by this routine:

0 If the routine is succesfull. 

1 Prints a message to standard error and returns 1 if any error is detected, such as bad invocation, standard input is not a window, can’t open the window, etc. 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  May 11, 2021