XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode

xmonad-contrib-0.12: Third party extensions for xmonad

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
Safe Haskell | None
Language | Haskell98

XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode

Contents

- Usage

Description

This is an `EventHook` that will receive commands from an external client. Also consider XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops together with `wmctrl`.

This is the example of a client:

    import Graphics.X11.Xlib
    import Graphics.X11.Xlib.Extras
    import System.Environment
    import System.IO
    import Data.Char

    main :: IO ()
    main = parse True "XMONAD_COMMAND" =<< getArgs

    parse :: Bool -> String -> [String] -> IO ()
    parse input addr args = case args of
            ["--"] | input -> repl addr
                   | otherwise -> return ()
            ("--":xs) -> sendAll addr xs
            ("-a":a:xs) -> parse input a xs
            ("-h":_) -> showHelp
            ("--help":_) -> showHelp
            ("-?":_) -> showHelp
            (a@('-':_):_) -> hPutStrLn stderr ("Unknown option " ++ a)

            (x:xs) -> sendCommand addr x >> parse False addr xs
            [] | input -> repl addr
               | otherwise -> return ()

    repl :: String -> IO ()
    repl addr = do e <- isEOF
                   case e of
                    True -> return ()
                    False -> do l <- getLine
                                sendCommand addr l
                                repl addr

    sendAll :: String -> [String] -> IO ()
    sendAll addr ss = foldr (\a b -> sendCommand addr a >> b) (return ()) ss

    sendCommand :: String -> String -> IO ()
    sendCommand addr s = do
      d   <- openDisplay ""
      rw  <- rootWindow d $ defaultScreen d
      a <- internAtom d addr False
      m <- internAtom d s False
      allocaXEvent $ \e -> do
                      setEventType e clientMessage
                      setClientMessageEvent e rw a 32 m currentTime
                      sendEvent d rw False structureNotifyMask e
                      sync d False

    showHelp :: IO ()
    showHelp = do pn <- getProgName
                  putStrLn ("Send commands to a running instance of xmonad. xmonad.hs must be configured with XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode to work.\n-a atomname can be used at any point in the command line arguments to change which atom it is sending on.\nIf sent with no arguments or only -a atom arguments, it will read commands from stdin.\nEx:\n" ++ pn ++ " cmd1 cmd2\n" ++ pn ++ " -a XMONAD_COMMAND cmd1 cmd2 cmd3 -a XMONAD_PRINT hello world\n" ++ pn ++ " -a XMONAD_PRINT # will read data from stdin.\nThe atom defaults to XMONAD_COMMAND.")

compile with: `ghc --make xmonadctl.hs`

run with

    xmonadctl command

or with

    $ xmonadctl
    command1
    command2
    .
    .
    .
    ^D

Usage will change depending on which event hook(s) you use. More examples are shown below.

Synopsis

- serverModeEventHook :: Event -> X All
- serverModeEventHook' :: X [(String, X ())] -> Event -> X All
- serverModeEventHookCmd :: Event -> X All
- serverModeEventHookCmd' :: X [(String, X ())] -> Event -> X All
- serverModeEventHookF :: String -> (String -> X ()) -> Event -> X All

# 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

serverModeEventHook :: Event -> X All #

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 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' :: X [(String, X ())] -> Event -> X All #

serverModeEventHook' additionally takes an action to generate the list of commands.

serverModeEventHookCmd :: Event -> X All #

Executes a command of the list when receiving its name via a special ClientMessageEvent. Uses XMonad.Actions.Commands as the default.

    main = xmonad def { handleEventHook = serverModeEventHookCmd }

    xmonadctl run # Tells xmonad to generate a run prompt

serverModeEventHookCmd' :: X [(String, X ())] -> Event -> X All #

Additionally takes an action to generate the list of commands

serverModeEventHookF :: String -> (String -> X ()) -> Event -> X All #

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"