wmv/wrs mouse coords read on socket about core HOT 4 CLOSED

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Cheers.

Yeah, I'll look into it... though it looks like `xmmv' was removed in 74badd. I come from i3 so I'm sure I'll manage, as I rarely use the mouse, but I was going through peoples' dotfiles when I noticed it.

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Jay wrote:

Cheers.

Yeah, I'll look into it... though it looks like `xmmv' was removed in 74badd.
I come from i3 so I'm sure I'll manage, as I rarely use the mouse, but I was
going through peoples' dotfiles when I noticed it.

After reading a bit through sxhkd source code, it looks like you can make it
write the pointer's coordinates to a socket, using a formatted string ('X' and
'Y' will be replaced by the coordinates, like "%i %i" before the update).

That will be hard to use correctly with wmutils, but it is perfect for bspwm
which reads commands from a socket. The user only has to tell "start
executing commands from the socket" and "stop executing commands from the
socket" (namely, bspc -g/bspc -u).

There might be a solution working with wmutils, using a wrapper script;
something amongst those lines:

#!/bin/sh

MAGIC=0xdeadca7
SOCKET=/tmp/sxhkd.sock

tail -n0 -f $SOCKET | while read cmd; do
    test "$cmd" = "$MAGIC" && exit 0 || $cmd
done

Running the script will start moving/resizing (depending in the template given
to sxhkd). Stopping the movement would be as easy as:

echo 0xdeadca7 > /tmp/sxhkd.sock

Disclaimer: I didn't test anything, but I see no reason why it would fail.

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