Hi justus, (I like that nickname :-))
justus jonas <hap...@web.de> writes: > currently I am working on a patch for fixing feature request #651 and > #833. This would introduce a mode "toggle" for i3bar, which toggles > between showing and hiding the i3bar whenever the i3bar modifier is > pressed. You rock! Thanks for all the patches and ongoing work. > Can anyone of you give me a hint on how to synchronize the state of the > two bars or how to tackle this problem in another way? Here’s an idea: 1) In the bar config, introduce a “hidden” state. 2) Introduce a new i3 command named “bar toggle” (bonus points for also implementing “bar show” and “bar hide”, they are trivial), that optionally accepts a parameter, which is the bar id. 3) Users configure e.g. “bindsym $mod+x bar toggle” in their i3 config, i3 sends the config update with “hidden” as state to all bar instances (or only the specified one). The advantages are: • i3 already provides keybinding configuration, so it should probably go into i3 anyways • people can use the IPC interface to do all kinds of specific setup outside of i3, by using the bar toggle/show/hide command, optionally with instances. -- Best regards, Michael
