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Tabbed DropDown Alacritty for X11
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Author: https://github.com/AlexCzar | |
# License: Apache 2.0 | |
# This script can be used as a launcher for alacritty-inside-tabbed | |
# It monitors window manager events and when detects that tabbed has | |
# lost focus, script will minimize tabbed. | |
# If alacritty-in-tabbed is not running, it will launch it, if it is | |
# running but isn't focused, script will give it focus, if it is running | |
# and is focused, script will minimize it. | |
# | |
# The script should work in any POSIX compatible shell (at least according | |
# to ShellCheck), but was only tested on ZSH. In case something doesn't | |
# work as expected, please submit a PR or report the issue in a comment. | |
# TODO: get rid of mentions of tabbed to make script universal. | |
# TODO: investigate why are there always two copies of the script running | |
active_window_id=$(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) | |
active_window=$(xprop -id "$active_window_id" WM_CLASS) | |
case "$active_window" in | |
*tabbed* ) | |
xdotool windowminimize "$active_window_id" | |
exit 0; | |
;; | |
* ) | |
# find tabbed's window and make it active or if it's not running we'll launch it | |
wmctrl -vxR tabbed || tabbed -df alacritty --embed & | |
# sleep is needed to make sure WM has had time to finilize setting things up | |
# you might want to increase it on a slow machine, if window keeps disappearing | |
# when it shouldn't | |
sleep 0.5 | |
tabbed_id=$(xdotool search --class tabbed) | |
# now we'll listen for WM events for tabbed window | |
xprop -spy -id "$tabbed_id" _NET_WM_STATE | | |
while read -r event; do | |
# check if the event is about tabbed losing focus | |
case "$event" in | |
*_NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED* ) | |
# it's still in focus, nothing to do, keep listening | |
:;; | |
* ) | |
xdotool windowminimize "$tabbed_id" | |
exit 0; | |
;; | |
esac | |
done | |
;; | |
esac | |
Thaks for the feedback, I'll test that and if it works for me as well, will update the gist.
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43'rd line was causing me problems so i modified it to work
*_NET_WM_STATE_FOCUSED* )
to
*_NET_WM_STATE_[^:HIDDEN:]* )
nice gist by the way