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Extended external communication via D-BUS
External communication with cortile was implemented via unix domain sockets as discussed here https://github.com/leukipp/cortile/issues/14#issuecomment-1558112799.
The current implementation has some caveats, as it works in an asynchronous way. You have to listen for return values while you are requesting a state from cortile.
There were also feature requests that were either impossible to add or require extensive programming skills and knowledge of the X window backend.
To address these issues, I have opted to introduce a more efficient approach that uses quasi-synchronous interaction with cortile via D-BUS. Given that tray icon communication already relies on D-BUS, this change introduces no new dependencies.
For those who have developed custom event handlers/hook-up logic for cortile, I recommend transitioning to the new API as soon as possible. The forthcoming external communication via D-BUS will supersede the now deprecated unix domain socket approach.
Details regarding the new D-BUS API will be published here and in the README.md file.
Starting with v2.5.0 dbus communication was unofficially added.
It`s still work in progress, but early beta testers may already have a look into it via running a separate cortile instance:
cortile dbus -help
There are also plans to allow custom cortile-addons for the broader community, by using a python wrapper package.