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 parent_filter_list = beautiful.parent_filter_list
or beautiful.dont_swallow_classname_list
or { "firefox", "Gimp", "Google-chrome" }
local child_filter_list = beautiful.child_filter_list
or beautiful.dont_swallow_classname_list or { }
-- for boolean values the or chain way to set the values breaks with 2 vars
-- and always defaults to true so i had to do this to se the right value...
local swallowing_filter = true
local filter_vars = { beautiful.swallowing_filter, beautiful.dont_swallow_filter_activated }
for _, var in pairs(filter_vars) do
swallowing_filter = var
end
-- check if element exist in table
-- returns true if it is
local function is_in_table(element, table)
local res = false
for _, value in pairs(table) do
if element:match(value) then
res = true
break
end
end
return res
end
-- if the swallowing filter is active checks the child and parent classes
-- against their filters
local function check_swallow(parent, child)
local res = true
if swallowing_filter then
local prnt = not is_in_table(parent, parent_filter_list)
local chld = not is_in_table(child, child_filter_list)
res = ( prnt and chld )
end
return res
end
-- async function to get the parent's pid
-- recieves a child process pid and a callback function
-- parent_pid in format "init(1)---ancestorA(pidA)---ancestorB(pidB)...---process(pid)"
function get_parent_pid(child_ppid, callback)
local ppid_cmd = string.format("pstree -A -p -s %s", child_ppid)
awful.spawn.easy_async(ppid_cmd, function(stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code)
-- primitive error checking
if stderr and stderr ~= "" then
callback(stderr)
return
end
local ppid = stdout
callback(nil, ppid)
end)
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
elseif parent_client.type == "dialog" or parent_client.type == "splash" then
return
end
get_parent_pid(c.pid, function(err, ppid)
if err then
return
end
parent_pid = ppid
if
-- will search for "(parent_client.pid)" inside the parent_pid string
( tostring(parent_pid):find("("..tostring(parent_client.pid)..")") )
and check_swallow(parent_client.class, c.class)
then
c:connect_signal("unmanage", function()
if parent_client then
helpers.client.turn_on(parent_client)
helpers.client.sync(parent_client, c)
end
end)
helpers.client.sync(c, parent_client)
helpers.client.turn_off(parent_client)
end
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,
}