change which program user is looking at

[Jonathan Stowe]

2008/10/21 Adeola Awoyemi <adeola at creativeadea.com>:
>
> On 21 Oct 2008, at 14:38, Denny wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 06:31 -0700, HermannJens at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 21, 2008 3:23pm, Denny <london.pm at metamathics.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:10 +0200, Hermann Ingjaldsson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How do i change (in code) which program the user is looking at?
>>>>
>>>> print "Please look at a different program now.\n";
>>>
>>> (:
>>> no then the user has to do it himself.
>>>
>>> is there no way of doing whatever the user can do... through code?
>>
>> Sometimes.  I'm not really sure what your original question is asking
>> though - do you mean changing which application has focus in a desktop
>> environment, or changing which program is running on a command line, or
>> something else?
>>
>> It sounds like you might want to script the window manager or desktop
>> environment - that's going to work differently on each WM/DE combination
>> - consult the WM and DE docs for initial info, see if they have Perl
>> bindings.
>>
>
> I think you want something like:
>
> print "Location: /cgi-bin/foo.cgi\n\n";
>
> But if you mean in the client-side then you want javascript:
>
> javascript:location.reload('/new-location.html');
>
> Or even with a <meta/> refresh?
>

But the program is still the same. What it is displaying might be
different but the user is still lookingt at their browser.