Better script for focused window about i3blocks HOT 9 CLOSED

@vivien, I can't seem to work xtitle -s on my i3blocks. When my focused window is st is works ok. But otherwise, it doesn't output anything, not even the label.

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This might be related but the following blocklet does not work.

[focused window]
command=xtitle -s
interval=persist

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[Title]
command=xdotool getactivewindow getwindowname 2> /dev/null || echo "None"
interval=1

I tried this and it worked just fine, way better than xtitle, I use interval=1 'cause persist does not work and repeat is killing the processor.

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I updated the wiki with your suggestion. Feel free to do so ;-)
For this, it'd be great to have a Perl script to connect on the IPC socket and wait indefinitely for focus updates, in a blocklet with interval=persist. That way you can have instant update. The doc includes all needed Perl snippets: http://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html#_subscribing_to_events
I'll try to find time for this, unless somebody is willing to write it.

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I wrote the following. I'm really sick today, though, so I'll stop right now and lay back down. It works if I execute it from the console, but somehow not via command and interval=persist. Not sure why. It's also missing handling for when the last container of a workspace was closed.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Data::Dumper;
use List::Util qw(first);
use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::I3;

use strict;
use warnings qw(FATAL utf8);
use v5.10;

my $i3 = i3();
$i3->connect->recv or die "failed to connect to i3";

$i3->subscribe({
  window => sub {
    my ($msg) = @_; 

    return unless $msg->{change} eq "focus" or $msg->{change} eq "title";
    say $msg->{container}->{name};
  }
})->recv->{success} or die "failed to subscribe to i3 events";

AE::cv->recv;

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please check if you have the latest git version of i3blocks, it will not work with the last tagged version.
also check the command "xtitle -s" in your terminal, and see if it works okay (if not, install https://github.com/baskerville/xtitle or from the AUR if you are a archlinux user).
then it should all work.

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The xtitle solution is actually a whole lot better. And it works fine with persist mode for me.

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I close this issue since the wiki is updated. The xtitle example is nice btw!

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That was AWESOME. the very last thing that bothered me with i3 is now gone!

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