Option to autoclose an special workspace when I switch to a different workspace

[sluedecke]

Description

I use a special workspace for my email and a special one for music. This works great, because I can toggle them at any time and return to the last active workspace just by toggling again.

But sometimes I don't want to return, but to switch to a different workspace. Currently this requires me to do two things (order not important):

• toggle special workspace
• switch to new workspace

Is there an easy way to bundle this into a single bind? Is this something which can be an option to the workspace dispatcher (e.g. if passing parameter true, special workspaces will be closed)?

[MightyPlaza]

..., exec, hyprctl --batch ...

[sluedecke]

I tried hyprctl --batch 'dispatch togglespecialworkspace; dispatch workspace 3' as an example, but it does not work properly.

• I need to specify the special workspace to toggle and I have at least two
• when invoked on a normal workspace, it opens the special workspace and then tries to switch to workspace 3

Maybe I miss something here?

Still I wonder if a function closespecialworkspace is doable. It would allow me to:

bind = , F1, closespecialworkspace
bind = , F1, workspace, 1

or with an extra (optional?) parameter for workspace:

bind = , F1, workspace, 1, true

[MightyPlaza]

add hyprctl monitors -j | jq .[0][\"specialWorkspace\"][\"name\"] to get the togglespecalworkspace arg add extra logic for more custom behaviour, this is easily scriptable

[sluedecke]

It is scriptable, I came up with this:

~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch-workspace-closing-special.sh:

SPECIAL=`hyprctl monitors -j | jq .[0][\"specialWorkspace\"][\"name\"]`

SPECIAL=${SPECIAL//\"/}

[ $SPECIAL ] && hyprctl dispatch togglespecialworkspace ${SPECIAL:8}

hyprctl dispatch workspace $1

and I bind it like this:

bind = , F1, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch-workspace-closing-special.sh 1
bind = , F2, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch-workspace-closing-special.sh 2
bind = , F3, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch-workspace-closing-special.sh 3
bind = , F4, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch-workspace-closing-special.sh 4

Still I don't like it very much since it could be implemented in hyprland (developer time given...) and needs to invoke 4 commands.

[sluedecke]

Still I don't like it very much since it could be implemented in hyprland (developer time given...) and needs to invoke 4 commands.

Also it makes it more complicated to integrate with workspace buttons in things like waybar. There I cannot use the script mentioned above (or I am not seeing how to....).