How can I isolate windows hint functionality to just one function? about awesome-hammerspoon HOT 9 CLOSED

I've never used karabiner.
But from this tutorial, I think the functionality can be
implemented. The example in tutorial is quite similar to yours.

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Oh no, you misunderstood me. I know how to call lua functions from Karabiner. What I don't know, is what to call to get the winhints show up. I don't get where it is defined so I can move it to just my init.lua to call from. :)

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I just saw your init.lua file.
Do you mean that you can call all lua functions from Karabiner, except "showWindowHints" function?
If so, that doesn't make sense. Showing windows hint did not link to modal switching, and was not defined anywhere else. It belongs to Hammerspoon's original functions.

I just test the code below in Hammerspoon console with your init.lua file, and it works as intended.

hs.urlevent.openURLWithBundle("hammerspoon://showWindowHints","com.apple.Safari")

So I presume you may do something wrong on Karabiner's side. Wish that helps. :)

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Well I am only calling hs.hints.windowHints() but that is not enough it seems.

Do you use something to draw the icons that show up and the lettering here :

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No, I didn't do anything else. http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hints.html
You can see something in Hammerspoon console which can help to identify the problem?

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Hey @ashfinal, I think I got it working now. :D

One thing though is that for some reason it doesn't display window names when there are many windows open :

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Did you add anything to hs.hints.windowHints() to get around this?

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@nikitavoloboev By default window hints will show their titles if there are less than 4 windows on screen.
hs.hints.showTitleThresh = 0
Change 0 to some number larger than 4, this should do the work.

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Thank you a lot @ashfinal, this worked

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