Select Clients From An Overview Mode

[modestbadger1773]

Being able to press a key and have all clients in a grid view that could selected through easymotion would also be an awesome implementation for later on.

As I said in other request - fantastic work, does exactly what I wanted it to.

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/hycov

[modestbadger1773]

I've made some bash scripts that combined with innate functionality of this plugin and hyprland's keybinds allow for a functional overview mode.

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#!/bin/sh

# Files to store mappings and fullscreen state
mapping_file="/tmp/client_workspace_mapping.txt"
fullscreen_file="/tmp/client_fullscreen_state.txt"

# Clear the mapping file and fullscreen state file or create if doesn't exist
: > $mapping_file
: > $fullscreen_file

# Workspace to move clients to
target_workspace=1

# Result string for hyptctl --batch
# Also switch to target workspace and first workspace for other monitor
result="dispatch workspace 1; dispatch workspace $target_workspace;"

# For every Hyprland client address
for client in $(hyprctl clients -j | jq -r ".[] | select(.workspace.id != $target_workspace and .workspace.id != -1) | @base64"); do
    workspace_id=$(echo $client | base64 --decode | jq -r ".workspace.id")
    address=$(echo $client | base64 --decode | jq -r ".address")
    fullscreen=$(echo $client | base64 --decode | jq "if .fullscreen == true then 1 elif .fullscreen == false then 0 else .fullscreen end")

    # Save mapping to file
    echo "$address $workspace_id" >> $mapping_file

    # If client is fullscreen, record this state and prepare to exit fullscreen
    if [ "$fullscreen" -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "$address" >> $fullscreen_file
        # Append command to exit fullscreen for this client
        result="$result dispatch fullscreen,address:$address;"
    fi

    # Append hyprctl command to execute with address
    result="$result dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $target_workspace,address:$address;"
done

# Execute commands
hyprctl --batch "$result"

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#!/bin/sh

# Files where the client to workspace mappings and fullscreen states are stored
mapping_file="/tmp/client_workspace_mapping.txt"
fullscreen_file="/tmp/client_fullscreen_state.txt"

# Use hyprctl activewindow and extract the window ID
focused_window_id=$(hyprctl activewindow | grep 'Window' | awk '{print $2}')
echo "Focused Window ID: $focused_window_id"

# Initialize variable for the focused client's original workspace
focused_client_workspace=""

# Check if focused_window_id is not empty
if [ -n "$focused_window_id" ]; then
    # Look up the focused window's original workspace
    focused_client_workspace=$(grep "$focused_window_id" "$mapping_file" | awk '{print $2}')
fi

echo "Focused Client's Original Workspace: $focused_client_workspace"

# Initialize result string for hyprctl --batch
result=""

# Read each mapping from the file and prepare hyprctl --batch commands
while IFS= read -r line; do
    address=$(echo "$line" | awk '{print $1}')
    original_workspace=$(echo "$line" | awk '{print $2}')
    
    # Move client to its original workspace
    result="$result dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $original_workspace,address:$address;"
    
    # Check if client was fullscreen and append command if necessary
    if grep -q "$address" "$fullscreen_file"; then
        result="$result dispatch fullscreen,address:$address;"
    fi
done < "$mapping_file"

# If the focused client's workspace was found, use it; otherwise, default to workspace 1
if [ -z "$focused_client_workspace" ]; then
    echo "No focused client workspace found, defaulting to workspace 1."
    focused_client_workspace=1
else
    echo "Moving to focused client's original workspace: $focused_client_workspace"
fi

# Append the command to switch to the workspace of the originally focused client
result="$result dispatch workspace $focused_client_workspace;"

# Execute commands
echo "Executing command: $result"
hyprctl --batch "$result"

Workflow

I call these commands with:

bind = ALT, grave, exec, $UserScripts/showall.sh
bindr = ALT, grave, easymotion, bgcolor:rgba(000000af), bordercolor:rgba(00ff00ff), textcolor:rgba(00ff00ff), action:hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:{};bash $UserScripts/returnall.sh

Which brings all clients to Workspace 1. Then, once I choose the client I want, all the clients return to their original Workspaces and I am moved to the chosen client's workspace with it active.

If I want to work with all the clients on one Workspace, I can escape out of the previous keybind. If I later want to return all clients to their respective workspaces (and follow my chosen client) I can use:

bindr = $mainMod, grave, easymotion, bgcolor:rgba(000000af), bordercolor:rgba(00ff00ff), textcolor:rgba(00ff00ff), action:hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:{};bash $UserScripts/returnall.sh

Hopefully these scripts can be helpful for someone other than just me. If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to give as much (of my admittedly meager) support as I can.

[luravoid]

Bind this script:

bind = ALT,tab, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/hycov-easymotion

#!/bin/bash

workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')

if [ "$workspace_name" = "OVERVIEW" ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
else
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
    hyprctl dispatch 'easymotion action:hyprctl --batch "dispatch focuswindow address:{} ; dispatch hycov:toggleoverview"'
fi

[DreamMaoMao]

SO COOL!

2024-04-15_05-57-01.mp4

[luravoid]

I added a socket event to the script so that the labels also hide when selecting a window with the mouse:

#!/bin/bash

handle() {
  case $1 in
    workspace*)
      workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')
      if [ "$workspace_name" != "OVERVIEW" ]; then
        hyprctl dispatch easymotionexit
        exit 0
      fi
      ;;
  esac
}

workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')

if [ "$workspace_name" = "OVERVIEW" ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
else
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
    hyprctl dispatch "easymotion action:hyprctl --batch 'dispatch focuswindow address:{} ; dispatch hycov:toggleoverview'"
fi

socat -U - UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock | while read -r line; do handle "$line"; done

It would also be possible to show and hide the overview with labels using a single hotkey if it were possible to define submaps that work in easymode to execute the script with the same hotkey

if [ "$workspace_name" = "OVERVIEW" ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch easymotionexit
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
else
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:toggleoverview
    hyprctl dispatch "easymotion action:hyprctl --batch 'dispatch focuswindow address:{} ; dispatch hycov:toggleoverview'"
fi

[DreamMaoMao]

@luravoid

hycov support leaveoverview and enteroverview dispatch. you should ues this replace toggleoverview.

workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')

if [ "$workspace_name" = "OVERVIEW" ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:leaveoverview
else
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:enteroverview
    hyprctl dispatch 'easymotion action:hyprctl --batch "dispatch focuswindow address:{} ; dispatch hycov:leaveoverview"'
fi

[luravoid]

Ok, now it's perfect. Single keybinding opens and closes hycov with labels

bind = ALT, Tab, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/hycov-easymotion
submap=__easymotionsubmap__ 
bind = ALT, Tab, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/hycov-easymotion
submap=reset

#!/bin/bash

handle() {
  case $1 in
    renameworkspace*)
      workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')
      if [ "$workspace_name" != "OVERVIEW" ]; then
        hyprctl dispatch easymotionexit
        exit 0
      fi
      ;;
  esac
}

workspace_name=$(hyprctl -j activeworkspace | jq -r '.name')

if [ "$workspace_name" = "OVERVIEW" ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:leaveoverview
else
    hyprctl dispatch hycov:enteroverview
    hyprctl dispatch "easymotion action:hyprctl --batch 'dispatch focuswindow address:{} ; dispatch hycov:leaveoverview'"
fi

socat -U - UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock | while read -r line; do handle "$line"; done

[thepenguinthatwants]

This makes the whole plugin hundred times more awesome. Hopefully it can somehow get merged with the master. But then using separate custom scripts is also fine enough.