local awful = require("awful") local gears = require("gears") local beautiful = require("beautiful") local helpers = require(tostring(...):match(".*bling") .. ".helpers") -- It might actually swallow too much, that's why there is a filter option by classname -- without the don't-swallow-list it would also swallow for example -- file pickers or new firefox windows spawned by an already existing one local window_swallowing_activated = false -- you might want to add or remove applications here local dont_swallow_classname_list = beautiful.dont_swallow_classname_list or {"firefox", "Gimp", "Google-chrome"} local activate_dont_swallow_filter = beautiful.dont_swallow_filter_activated or true -- checks if client classname matches with any entry of the dont-swallow-list local function check_if_swallow(c) if not activate_dont_swallow_filter then return true end for _, classname in ipairs(dont_swallow_classname_list) do if classname == c.class then return false end end return true end -- the function that will be connected to / disconnected from the spawn client signal local function manage_clientspawn(c) -- get the last focused window to check if it is a parent window local parent_client=awful.client.focus.history.get(c.screen, 1) if not parent_client then return end -- io.popen is normally discouraged. Should probably be changed local handle = io.popen([[pstree -T -p -a -s ]] .. tostring(c.pid) .. [[ | sed '2q;d' | grep -o '[0-9]*$' | tr -d '\n']]) local parent_pid = handle:read("*a") handle:close() if (tostring(parent_pid) == tostring(parent_client.pid)) and check_if_swallow(c) then c:connect_signal("unmanage", function() helpers.client.turn_on(parent_client) helpers.client.sync(parent_client, c) end) helpers.client.sync(c, parent_client) helpers.client.turn_off(parent_client) end end -- without the following functions that module would be autoloaded by require("bling") -- a toggle window swallowing hotkey is also possible that way local function start() client.connect_signal("manage", manage_clientspawn) window_swallowing_activated = true end local function stop() client.disconnect_signal("manage", manage_clientspawn) window_swallowing_activated = false end local function toggle() if window_swallowing_activated then stop() else start() end end return { start = start, stop = stop, toggle = toggle }