https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:54:25 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/How do i subscribe to i3-events using bash easily?Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:13:07 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?answer=5722#post-id-5722You can use the following perl script "i3subscribe" to subscribe to i3-events: #!/usr/bin/env perl BEGIN { $| = 1 } # flush \n use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use AnyEvent::I3; use v5.10; my $i3 = i3(); $i3->connect->recv or die "Error connecting to i3"; sub subscribe { my $ev = $_[0]; my $dump = $_[1]; if($i3->subscribe({ $ev => sub { my ($msg) = @_; say "$ev:$msg->{'change'}"; if($dump) { print Dumper($msg); } } })->recv->{success}) { say "Successfully subscribed to $ev-event"; } } my $nextArg = shift; if(!$nextArg) { say "Subscribe to i3-events"; say "Usage: $0 workspace|output|mode|window|barconfig_update|binding [dump]"; say "Example: $0 workspace dump window binding dump"; exit 1; } while($nextArg) { my $arg = $nextArg; $nextArg = shift; my $dump = 0; if($nextArg and $nextArg eq "dump") { $dump = 1; $nextArg = shift; } subscribe("$arg", $dump); } AE::cv->recv; Example: i3subscribe window workspace | while read -r event; do ... done Example use case: [Different keyboard layout for every window](https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5822/different-keyboard-layot-for-every-window/)Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:15:16 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?answer=5722#post-id-5722https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?comment=5890#comment-5890The link seems to be dead. Do you have some source repository for it (github, bitbucket, etc.)? If it is not to long you could also post it here entirely.Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:04:09 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?comment=5890#comment-5890https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?comment=5901#comment-5901updated my post, thank youSun, 26 Apr 2015 16:54:25 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5721/how-do-i-subscribe-to-i3-events-using-bash-easily/?comment=5901#comment-5901