riverwm-utils 0.0.9

Utilities for the River Wayland compositor

riverwm-utils

Utilities for the River Wayland compositor. Currently just one utility is included.

Usage

cycle-focused-tags

Change to either the next or previous focused tags.

As can be seen in a pull request, this functionality can easily be built directly into river. However, as explained by Leon Plickat there is a plan to separate the window management to a separate client, and as such new additions are not being accepted. The approach implemented here was suggested and sample code was provided. That sample code forms the basis of this script.

The script takes two arguments: the first is being the direction next|previous, the second being the maximum number of tags at which the cycling should wrap back to the first tag (or to the last tag from the first tag).

If the second argument is omitted the maximum number of tags is assumed to be 32. If both arguments are ommited the direction, next, will be used.

The script can be called using spawn in the users init file. For example:

riverctl map normal Mod4 Up spawn "cycle-focused-tags previous 9"
riverctl map normal Mod4 Down spawn "cycle-focused-tags next 9"

Install

Development version

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/NickHastings/riverwm-utils.git

Install locally with pip

python3 -m pip install ./riverwm-utils

Stable realeases

python3 -m pip install riverwm-utils

Wayland protocols and pywayland

For cycle-focused-tags to work the relevant wayland protocol xml files will need to be scanned by pywayland. If this has not already been done cycle-focused-tags will attempt to do so.

Licensing

riverwm-utils is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only.

The protocols in the *.xml files are released under various licenses by various parties. You should refer to the copyright block of each protocol for the licensing information.