[FEATURE]: Shortcut key to restart Bismuth

[kiranbansode]

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Summary

Sometimes Bismuth does not work or stop to work suddenly. So to restart it we need to go to Settings -> Window Management -> Window Tiling -> toggle off 'Enable Window Tiling' and then re-toggle it to restart Bismuth. It is very tedious task to do.

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So what I suggest is to implement such a feature or assign a shortcut key which will restart Bismuth instead going through such tedious process.

OR

add a simple 'Restart' option in Bismuth's system tray icon.

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[linuxthrawn]

I've solved this for my setup by creating a simple script that toggles bismuth on/off - bismuthToggle.sh.

#!/bin/sh

bismuthToggle=`kreadconfig5 --file kwinrc --group Plugins --key bismuthEnabled`

if [ $bismuthToggle = "true" ]; then
  kwriteconfig5 --file kwinrc --group Plugins --key bismuthEnabled false
elif [ $bismuthToggle = "false" ]; then
  kwriteconfig5 --file kwinrc --group Plugins --key bismuthEnabled true
fi

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure

Then I made it executable & moved it to /bin/.

Finally, I created a simple custom shortcut to run the script in Settings --> Shortcuts --> Custom shortcuts --> Edit --> New --> Global shortcut --> Command/URL.

In the T rigger tab I selected an available keyboard shortcut, and in the action tab specified the script to run in my terminal of choice (Alacritty).

alacritty -e bismuthToggle

When I need to restart bismuth, I just toggle its status twice.