Run or Raise

[clicseo]

Hello,

I am trying to implement a run or raise feature on my new dwl build. I used wlrctl for all my other wayland compositors but I am getting Foreign Toplevel Management interface not found! on dwl.

How can I implement this feature, any other available tool to get it? I want to have keybindings to open apps, or focus them if they're already opened instead of opening new instances of the app.

Thank you in advance!

[wochap]

You could extend the functionality of the namedscratchpads patch:

void
run_or_raise_scratch(const Arg *arg)
{
	Client *c;
	unsigned int found = 0;

	/* search for first window that matches the scratchkey */
	wl_list_for_each(c, &clients, link)
		if (c->scratchkey == ((char**)arg->v)[0][0]) {
			found = 1;
			break;
		}

	if (found) {
		if (VISIBLEON(c, selmon)) {
			if (focustop(selmon) != c) {
			        // focus
				focusclient(c, 1);
			}
		} else {
			// show/move client to current workspace/tags
			c->tags = selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags];
			// TODO: or change current workspace/tags to where client is located
			
			// focus
			focusclient(c, 1);
		}
		arrange(selmon);
	} else{
		spawnscratch(arg);
	}
}

[Sneethe]

If this works well. Be sure to add it to the patch list.

[clicseo]

You could extend the functionality of the namedscratchpads patch:

void
run_or_raise_scratch(const Arg *arg)
{
	Client *c;
	unsigned int found = 0;

	/* search for first window that matches the scratchkey */
	wl_list_for_each(c, &clients, link)
		if (c->scratchkey == ((char**)arg->v)[0][0]) {
			found = 1;
			break;
		}

	if (found) {
		if (VISIBLEON(c, selmon)) {
			if (focustop(selmon) != c) {
			        // focus
				focusclient(c, 1);
			}
		} else {
			// show/move client to current workspace/tags
			c->tags = selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags];
			// TODO: or change current workspace/tags to where client is located
			
			// focus
			focusclient(c, 1);
		}
		arrange(selmon);
	} else{
		spawnscratch(arg);
	}
}

After a couple of days fighting with this I managed to make it work. Thank you very much for your help, the only thing I had to change is:

        selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] = c->tags;
        focusclient(c, 1);
        arrange(selmon);