Other labwc supports the foreign toplevel interface.

NapoleonWils0n · Mar 28, 2024

labwc which is a wayland version of openbox supports the foreign toplevel interface
which provides a list of the open applications and lets you perform actions on the windows

using wlrctl you can list the open windows and use the output in a script

Code:

sudo pkg install wlrctl

wlrctl list windows

Code:

wlrctl toplevel list

list of windows

Code:

firefox: Post thread | The FreeBSD Forums — Mozilla Firefox
emacs: window-switcher - GNU Emacs at pollux
Alacritty: tmux
chromium-browser: Never the Twain - Series 1 - Episode 4 - ITVX - Chromium

use awk to grab the application name

Code:

wlrctl toplevel list | awk -F: '{print $1}'

list of applications

Code:

firefox
emacs
Alacritty
chromium-browser

activate window by application name

Code:

wlrctl toplevel activate app_id:emacs

simple script that gets a list of the open application and displays the list with tofi

Code:

sudo pkg install tofi

which a wayland version of rofi and then switches to the application using wlrctl

so rather than use keybinding to switch to a workspace
eg super + 1 switches to workspace 1

i press a keyboard shortcut to display list of applications with tofi and just type the name of the application
and automatically switch to that workspace

Code:

#!/bin/sh

input=$(wlrctl toplevel list | awk -F: '{print $1}' | tofi)

wlrctl toplevel activate app_id:"${input}"

labwc rc.xml

labwc doesnt have independent workspaces

if you have mpv playing a video on your second monitor on workspace 1
and you switch to workspace 2 on the first display the second display also switches to workspace 2

you can use window rules to match windows and specify an option called ToggleOmnipresent
which sets the window to be displayed on all workspaces

in the examples below i match chromium, firefox picture in picture windows and mpv

and set them to be displayed on all workspace so when they are on the second display
and i switch workspaces on the first display the window is still displayed on the second display

window rules

Code:

  <!-- window rules -->
    <windowRules>

  <!-- chromium -->
      <windowRule identifier="chromium-browser" matchOnce="true">
        <skipTaskbar>no</skipTaskbar>
        <skipWindowSwitcher>no</skipWindowSwitcher>
        <action name="ToggleOmnipresent"/>
      </windowRule>

  <!-- firefox pip -->
      <windowRule identifier="firefox" title="Picture-in-Picture" matchOnce="false">
        <skipTaskbar>no</skipTaskbar>
        <skipWindowSwitcher>no</skipWindowSwitcher>
        <action name="ToggleOmnipresent"/>
      </windowRule>

  <!-- mpv -->
      <windowRule identifier="mpv" matchOnce="true">
        <skipTaskbar>no</skipTaskbar>
        <skipWindowSwitcher>no</skipWindowSwitcher>
        <action name="ToggleOmnipresent"/>
      </windowRule>

    </windowRules>

Other labwc supports the foreign toplevel interface.

NapoleonWils0n