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--- Spawns cmd if no client can be found matching properties
-- If such a client can be found, pop to first tag where it is visible, and give it focus
-- @param cmd the command to execute
-- @param properties a table of properties to match against clients. Possible entries: any properties of the client object
function run_or_raise(cmd, properties)
local clients = client.get()
local focused = awful.client.next(0)
local findex = 0
local matched_clients = {}
local n = 0
for i, c in pairs(clients) do
--make an array of matched clients
if match(properties, c) then
n = n + 1
matched_clients[n] = c
if c == focused then
findex = n
end
end
end
if n > 0 then
local c = matched_clients[1]
-- if the focused window matched switch focus to next in list
if 0 < findex and findex < n then
c = matched_clients[findex+1]
end
local ctags = c:tags()
if table.getn(ctags) == 0 then
-- ctags is empty, show client on current tag
local curtag = awful.tag.selected()
awful.client.movetotag(curtag, c)
else
-- Otherwise, pop to first tag client is visible on
awful.tag.viewonly(ctags[1])
end
-- And then focus the client
client.focus = c
c:raise()
return
end
awful.util.spawn(cmd)
end
-- Returns true if all pairs in table1 are present in table2
function match (table1, table2)
for k, v in pairs(table1) do
if table2[k] ~= v and not table2[k]:find(v) then
return false
end
end
return true
end
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