Re: [Help-bash] Finding terminal which currently has focus?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:21:51PM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> I know I can use `tty` to find out the the processes own terminal. But
> what about the current focus?

Which window has mouse focus?  That would be an X thing.  You would have
to ask an X mailing list.

> One can spawn many login shells tty1, tty2 etc. Can a bash script in
> tty1 know, that tty1 is currently not being looked at? Or in other
> words, can the bash script in tty1 know that currently lets say tty7 is
> visible?

Oh, you mean which Linux virtual console is currently active?  That
would be a Linux thing.  You would have to ask a Linux mailing list.