On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:58:45PM -0700, Aaron Helton wrote:
> As far as a scratchpad.py goes, I do not have that file. My scratchpad is
> set up in my groups.py file, and is simply declared as such:
> groups = [
> Group("Development"),
> ... (Other Groups),
> ScratchPad("scratchpad", [
> DropDown("browser", "qutebrowser -R --basedir
> ~/.config/scratchpad_qutebrowser/",
> on_focus_lost_hide=False, x=0.05, y=0.05,
> width=0.9, height=0.9),
> ... (Other similar DropDowns)
> ]),
> ]
>
> As for what I meant regarding the scratchpad being called to, what I meant
> was that I was confused that the client isn't first being assigned to the
> 'scratchpad' group, then re-assigned to the current group.It's instead
> being directly assigned to the group I want the DropDown to appear on. That
> does make some sense when I think about it, I was just confirming that that
> is indeed what it supposed to happen.
>
> Regarding the group_window_add hook, I see that it doesn't appear to pass
> any arguments. What would be the best way to get the window that was just
> added when it's called?
I think this is a bug that we should fix:
https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/1341
> Really, I just need any way to identify when a new window is created that
> is part of the Scratchpad group,
I think you don't want to deal with the IPC stuff (i.e. lazy.*) at
all, then:
@hook.subscribe.screen_change
def on_manage(w):
if w.group.name == 'scratchpad':
w.on_scratchpad = True # bit of a hack to write to our objects, but
c'est la vie
def kill_window(qtile):
if qtile.currentWindow.on_scratchpad:
qtile.currentWindow.togroup('scratchpad')
else:
qtile.currentWindow.kill()
Key([mod], "k", lazy.function(kill_window)),
> and I was hoping to do it without relying
> on how the internals of the groups work, since I wanted to future-proof it
> in case a change is made in the future.
Unfortunately, we don't really consider anything that interacts with
the qtile object as a stable API. If you wanted to build some kind of
scratchpad functionality into the core, that would be more reliable.
Stuff like this doesn't change very much, but it does on occasion.
Tycho
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