swayipc

It's like swaymsg (in sway) or i3ipc (in i3) but in native Nim.

You might find these docs for i3ipc useful: https://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html

See also the useful examples below.

Documentation

See the documentation for the swayipc module as generated directly from the source.

Usage

import asyncdispatch
from strutils import spaces

import swayipc

proc dump(tree: TreeReply; indent=0) =
  echo indent.spaces, tree.id, " ", tree.`type`
  for n in tree.nodes:
    n.dump(indent + 2)
  for n in tree.floating_nodes:
    n.dump(indent + 2)

var
  # connect to a compositor at an optional socket path
  compositor = waitFor newCompositor("../some/path")
  # synchronous tree retrieval
  reply = compositor.invoke(GetTree)

dump(reply.tree)
#1 root
#  2147483647 output
#    2147483646 workspace
#  15 output
#    26 workspace
#      28 con
#      39 con
#      49 floating_con
#    37 workspace
#      36 con
#    38 workspace
#      34 con
#    50 workspace
#      6 floating_con
#    7 workspace
#      5 con

# you can pass extra arguments for a command (as strings)
reply = waitFor GetBarConfig.invoke("status")
assert reply.bar.config.mode == "hide"

# you can invoke `send` to instantiate the compositor
block:
  var
    compositor = waitFor RunCommand.send("opacity 0.5")

    # receive the reply
    receipt = waitFor compositor.recv()

    # maybe you want to twiddle your own json?
    js = receipt.data

    # or, nah, that's silly...
    reply = receipt.reply

  # multiple command results are returned as a sequence
  assert reply.ran[0].success

# an example subscription iterator:
iterator focusChanges(): WindowEvent =
  let compositor = waitFor Subscribe.send("[\"window\"]")
  while true:
    let receipt = waitFor compositor.recv()
    if receipt.kind != EventReceipt:
      continue
    if receipt.event.kind != Window:
      continue
    if receipt.event.change != "focus":
      continue
    yield receipt.event.window

for window in focusChanges():
  echo window.name, " now has focus"

Examples

• reposition and resize floating windows matching any of a series of regexps
• automagically adjust the opacity of windows according to whether they are focussed

License

MIT