Multi-line message

[g4bwy]

Hi,

After browsing through the current code in message.c and ipc_server.c, I figured the answer might be no, but is there a way to send a message command displaying multiple lines ?

From my understanding, commands sent to the IPC socket must be terminated with a \n, so it doesn't appear to be possible, but I might have missed something (double-escaping inside the message with '\n' is rendered verbatim so it doesn't work either).

I'm trying to implement an equivalent to ratpoison's (or stumpwm) 'windows' command using IPC, starting from the show_workspace_views.sh example script

thanks,

[project-repo]

Hi g4bwy
As you correctly guessed, there is currently no way of achieving this. Our philosophy is that the complexity of the displayed messages should be kept to a minimum whenever possible and therefore, we do not plan to support multi-line messages.

Instead, the suggested workflow for emulating the windows command is as follows:

• Write a shell script which prints the list of currently open windows, reads your choice of window to focus and focusses that window.
• Map a keybinding to opening a terminal and running the script.

Does that work for you? If you see something we have overlooked in our considerations or if you have any further input don't hesitate to get back to us.
Cheers
project-repo

[g4bwy]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply, however, your suggestion wasn't exactly what I had in mind, since my intended use case
is simply to have a one-shot view of open windows with their titles and id, like in the following screenshot:

Anyway this is ok, since I found a way to make it work: since the message ends up being rendered using pango, adding \r for line breaks instead of \n seems to do the job ;)

Cheers,

[project-repo]

Great, glad to hear that you figured out a workaround, thanks for
letting us know about it!

Cheers
project-repo