Guake/Tilda-like visibility toggle for any application

Question

Guake and Tilda are 2 applications in Ubuntu which can be toggled visible/invisible with a hotkey, but this mechanism is built inside of these applications.

Is there some general manager software that allows you to apply this toggling behaviour on any application and set a hotkey for it?

I'm for now only looking to apply it on a Firefox vimperator application instance. But it would be interesting to apply on any other program as well.

Answer 1

Now yes! I wanted something similar and just added the feature to my little launcher called marathon.

Read the documentation: you'll need wmctrl and xdotool, and the behavior you want is behind the --toggle flag.Give it a try and tell me how it goes :)