Really, there was no reason why other than exploring async and websockets using Rust. I haven't been messing around with programming too much lately, so I figured that this would be a good starting point. Yes, it is shoddily-written and unnecessary, but why not? And yes, this is based on the same premise as Burgr033's work using Python, which can be found here.
Yes, I know, you could use pytools to compile the original script by Burgr033 and run it as an executable, but I personally hate that approach and think that the packaging for Rust is superior in this regard.
Yes, I know that there's rookie mistakes and a patchy appearance, such as the unreachable code or how it looks like things were slammed together in a ghetto Large Hadron Collider, and that's because they were. I shamelessly used the general outline from jonhoo's OBS-DO project to setup async, then tossed on what I could find out there which happened to be a library called Tungstenite.
Well, download the source code and make sure that Rust is installed on your system. Open the project folder in a terminal,
then type cargo b -r to build a release binary, which will be located in glaalt\target\release\glaalt.exe.
If all of that was too much, download the pre-made binary.
Place the
executable in a simple or memorable location, then add this rule to your config.yaml file for GWM:
- command: "set minimized"
match_process_name: "/glaalt/"From here, you can also add a keybind to start GlaAlt from GWM, start it from a script, or just start it manually. It should run in the background.
- Make a way to minimize this to tray or hide the window without crazy code expansion.
- Figure out why I'm so bad at programming.
- Do better.
Hey, if you want to waste time improving it, go for it. Submit a PR, let's finalize this, or at least make it a bit better. My own patchy work is GPLv3, the associated libraries are under their own licenses, assuming it even matters.