djpohly
The case for a means of tag/mode tracking
The bar in dwm indicates a lot of information that is nearly impossible to track otherwise. Is there an easy way to access this information in dwl via the terminal? Tags require there own bar type, which Is why I believe it is included in dwm, but if you have a utility to deliver the information easily to a terminal, it wouldn't be necessary to add a bar and that could be left for someone who doesn't mind another dependency.
The info is printed to stdout (or child process' stdin), check printstatus() to see what information is printed.
Using waybar and the status information that @Sevz17 mentioned above, you can start dwl like this
dwl > "${HOME}/.cache/dwltags"
This script can then be used within a waybar configuration for displaying dwl tag (and layout and active window) status:
There are other ways that others use for displaying tag information.
Yep, this is exactly why the status-to-stdio setup is in place. It should be flexible enough to adapt to any external bar or non-bar you want to use. @nuclearfall is there anything you were looking for that's not handled by consuming printstatus() output?
@djpohly Regarding adding items to the printstatus() function, I have a patch that adds appid to the fields outputted by printstatus. This is intended to allow external scripts to detect the currently active application so for example the clipboard manager can ignore my password database and libinput gestures can be customised by application. I will be adding this to the patches wiki when I get a chance, but would you be interested in me pushing a pull request to add just the appid output to dwl? No worries if not, it may be too far outside the core functionality.
I would push just the printstatus parts of this patch: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/commit/62a7eada562db261d6684f4dc0df303f7d0cdec6#diff-f471c124277e21c02d19d16fd4e86287656f1aae579dc7820ff33c9b2403a9a1
@bencollerson Looks very useful. Nice work. Lack of appid tracking outside of sway has long been an annoyance.
Net gain +7 lines? Yes, please! This is a PR worth making and I suspect it would be pushed.
Okay done.
https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/pull/381
appid change only, without the perl script I use to cache title and appid.
@sevz17 all discussions here seem closed resolved already and op hasn't responded in over a year. Can close?
@sevz17 all discussions here seem closed resolved already and op hasn't responded in over a year. Can close?
Yup, thanks for the remainder