bling/module/window_swallowing.lua

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Lua

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
}