----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- | -- Module : XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode -- Description : Send commands to a running xmonad process. -- Copyright : (c) Peter Olson 2013 and Andrea Rossato and David Roundy 2007 -- License : BSD-style (see xmonad/LICENSE) -- -- Maintainer : polson2@hawk.iit.edu -- Stability : unstable -- Portability : unportable -- -- This is an 'EventHook' that will receive commands from an external -- client. Also consider "XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops" together with -- @wmctrl@. -- -- See @scripts/xmonadctl.hs@ for the client. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode ( -- * Usage -- $usage serverModeEventHook , serverModeEventHook' , serverModeEventHookCmd , serverModeEventHookCmd' , serverModeEventHookF ) where import System.IO import XMonad import XMonad.Prelude import XMonad.Actions.Commands -- $usage -- You can use this module with the following in your -- @~\/.xmonad\/xmonad.hs@: -- -- > import XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode -- -- Then edit your @handleEventHook@ by adding the appropriate event hook from below -- | Executes a command of the list when receiving its index via a special ClientMessageEvent -- (indexing starts at 1). Sending index 0 will ask xmonad to print the list of command numbers -- in stderr (so that you can read it in @~\/.xsession-errors@). Uses "XMonad.Actions.Commands#defaultCommands" as the default. -- -- > main = xmonad def { handleEventHook = serverModeEventHook } -- -- > xmonadctl 0 # tells xmonad to output command list -- > xmonadctl 1 # tells xmonad to switch to workspace 1 -- serverModeEventHook :: Event -> X All serverModeEventHook = serverModeEventHook' defaultCommands -- | serverModeEventHook' additionally takes an action to generate the list of -- commands. serverModeEventHook' :: X [(String,X ())] -> Event -> X All serverModeEventHook' cmdAction = serverModeEventHookF "XMONAD_COMMAND" (mapM_ helper . words) where helper cmd = do cl <- cmdAction case lookup cmd (zip (map show [1 :: Integer ..]) cl) of Just (_,action) -> action Nothing -> mapM_ (io . hPutStrLn stderr) . listOfCommands $ cl listOfCommands cl = zipWith (++) (map show [1 :: Int ..]) (map ((++) " - " . fst) cl) -- | Executes a command of the list when receiving its name via a special ClientMessageEvent. -- Uses "XMonad.Actions.Commands#defaultCommands" as the default. -- -- > main = xmonad def { handleEventHook = serverModeEventHookCmd } -- -- > xmonadctl run # Tells xmonad to generate a run prompt -- serverModeEventHookCmd :: Event -> X All serverModeEventHookCmd = serverModeEventHookCmd' defaultCommands -- | Additionally takes an action to generate the list of commands serverModeEventHookCmd' :: X [(String,X ())] -> Event -> X All serverModeEventHookCmd' cmdAction = serverModeEventHookF "XMONAD_COMMAND" (mapM_ helper . words) where helper cmd = do cl <- cmdAction fromMaybe (io $ hPutStrLn stderr ("Couldn't find command " ++ cmd)) (lookup cmd cl) -- | Listens for an atom, then executes a callback function whenever it hears it. -- A trivial example that prints everything supplied to it on xmonad's standard out: -- -- > main = xmonad def { handleEventHook = serverModeEventHookF "XMONAD_PRINT" (io . putStrLn) } -- -- > xmonadctl -a XMONAD_PRINT "hello world" -- serverModeEventHookF :: String -> (String -> X ()) -> Event -> X All serverModeEventHookF key func ClientMessageEvent {ev_message_type = mt, ev_data = dt} = do d <- asks display atm <- io $ internAtom d key False when (mt == atm && dt /= []) $ do let atom = fromIntegral (head dt) cmd <- io $ getAtomName d atom case cmd of Just command -> func command Nothing -> io $ hPutStrLn stderr ("Couldn't retrieve atom " ++ show atom) return (All True) serverModeEventHookF _ _ _ = return (All True)