hyprland-events 0.4.0

Typed event dispatch layer for Hyprland IPC

hyprland-events

Typed event dispatch layer for Hyprland IPC. Built on top of hyprland-socket.

Every Hyprland event is parsed into a frozen dataclass with named fields — no more splitting strings on commas.

Installation

pip install hyprland-events

Usage

Blocking event loop

from hyprland_events import EventDispatcher, WorkspaceEvent, MonitorAddedEvent

dispatcher = EventDispatcher()

@dispatcher.on("workspacev2")
def on_workspace(event: WorkspaceEvent):
    print(f"Switched to workspace {event.id} ({event.name})")

@dispatcher.on("monitoraddedv2")
def on_monitor(event: MonitorAddedEvent):
    print(f"Monitor {event.name} connected")

dispatcher.run()  # blocks until the socket closes

on() also works without the decorator syntax:

dispatcher.on("workspacev2", my_handler)

GLib / GTK integration

from gi.repository import GLib
from hyprland_events import EventDispatcher

dispatcher = EventDispatcher()
dispatcher.on("configreloaded", lambda e: print("Config reloaded"))

sock, feed = dispatcher.connect()
GLib.io_add_watch(
    sock.fileno(), GLib.IO_IN,
    lambda *_: feed(sock.recv(4096)) or True,
)

Wildcard handler

dispatcher.on("*", lambda event: print(event))

One-off parsing

from hyprland_events import parse_event

event = parse_event("workspacev2", "3,code")
# WorkspaceEvent(id=3, name='code')

Supported events

Socket name	Dataclass	Fields
workspacev2	WorkspaceEvent	id, name
focusedmonv2	FocusedMonitorEvent	monitor, workspace_id
activewindow	ActiveWindowEvent	wm_class, title
activewindowv2	ActiveWindowV2Event	address
fullscreen	FullscreenEvent	active
monitoraddedv2	MonitorAddedEvent	id, name, description
monitorremovedv2	MonitorRemovedEvent	id, name, description
createworkspacev2	CreateWorkspaceEvent	id, name
destroyworkspacev2	DestroyWorkspaceEvent	id, name
moveworkspacev2	MoveWorkspaceEvent	id, name, monitor
renameworkspace	RenameWorkspaceEvent	id, name
activespecialv2	ActiveSpecialEvent	id, name, monitor
activelayout	ActiveLayoutEvent	keyboard, layout
openwindow	OpenWindowEvent	address, workspace, wm_class, title
closewindow	CloseWindowEvent	address
movewindowv2	MoveWindowEvent	address, workspace_id, workspace_name
openlayer	OpenLayerEvent	namespace
closelayer	CloseLayerEvent	namespace
submap	SubmapEvent	name
changefloatingmode	FloatingEvent	address, floating
urgent	UrgentEvent	address
minimized	MinimizeEvent	address, minimized
screencast	ScreencastEvent	active, owner
windowtitlev2	WindowTitleEvent	address, title
configreloaded	ConfigReloadedEvent	(none)
pin	PinEvent	address, pinned
kill	KillEvent	address
togglegroup	ToggleGroupEvent	active, addresses
moveintogroup	MoveIntoGroupEvent	address
moveoutofgroup	MoveOutOfGroupEvent	address
ignoregrouplock	IgnoreGroupLockEvent	active
lockgroups	LockGroupsEvent	locked
bell	BellEvent	address

Unrecognized events are passed to handlers as the raw hyprland_socket.Event(name, data) object.

For sending commands and querying Hyprland state, see hyprland-socket.

License

MIT