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Is it possible to subscribe to 'window' event ?

asked 2013-03-08 04:35:48 +0000

syl20bnr
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I would want to prepend an incremental number (up to 9) in windows title inside a same workspace in order to be able to quickly switch to a them with that number.

One possibility to achieve this would be to use a combination of IPC for setting the windows title and i3 configuration for the shortcuts. But I can't find how to subscribe to window events and get something like 'new window' and 'closed window'.

As I'm starting to understand Michael philosophy I'm sure it is intended and there must be another 'more standard' way to do it.

Anyone could point me in the right direction ?

Thank you.

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answered 2013-03-08 18:11:06 +0000

Michael
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There is a window event (in the git version): http://build.i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html#windowevent

You won’t get the window event when closing a window, but patches for that will be accepted.

Please keep us updated about your script, I think it’s an interesting one.

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I played a bit with it, the event on window works great for the property change = new.In order to be able to prepend numbers to windows with IPC I need some other properties: window -> change = title window -> change = delete I also need a new command for window like the rename workspace command.

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