hamster-dmenu.sh

#!/bin/sh

function menu {
	dmenu -i -l 20 -fn 'Terminus-16' $@
}

function refreshawesome {
	echo 'require("leaf.status").refresh()' | awesome-client
}

current=$(hamster current)

# choose an action
if [ "No activity" = "$current" ]; then
	action="start"
else
	action=$(echo -e -n "start\nstop $current" | menu -p Action)
fi

[ -z "$action" ] && exit 1

case "$action" in
	start)
		activity=$(hamster activities | menu -p Start)
		[ -z "$activity" ] && exit 1
		hamster start "$activity"
		notify-send "Started $activity"
		refreshawesome
	;;
	stop*)
		hamster stop
		notify-send "Stopped $current"
		refreshawesome
	;;
esac