Correctly implemented window swallowing for X. Replacement for pidswallow, but rewritten in C Rust to properly handle some edge cases and run faster.
When you run a graphical program from the terminal, the terminal window will get visually replaced by the graphical program, and the other way around when exiting the program. I think this came from plan9 OS but I'm not sure on that.
- Only vomiting after all the child's windows are closed
- Correctly handling positioning windows (mostly?
mpvdoesn't work quite right) - Tracks more properties of child windows (e.g. maximized / minimized state)
- Using in-memory data instead of files in
/tmpto store swallow status
Not on crates.io, cargo install with --git or --path
Currently configuration is the same as the C version, and based on environment variables:
TERMINAL: process name for your terminal emulatorXSWALLOW_TERMINALS::-separated additional terminal emulatorsXSWALLOW_IMMUNE::-separated list of programs to be immune to being swallowed
I recommend LD_PRELOAD-ing the _NET_WM_PID hack, as it allows programs that don't support EWMH (e.g. anything using raw X) to be captured.
Depends on:
xcblibrarystd::os::unixmodule/proc/{pid}/statusexisting
So it's most likely Linux only. This should work on any window manager that supports ICCCM and EWMH. I don't have any graphical linux computers other than my laptop, so feel free to test this on your own window manager to report bugs, particularly if more/less window "geometry" should be saved.
openbox: working
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- 1.0.0: Initial Rust version, port of the C version with bugs fixed along the way
- replace env vars with a config file
- command-line tool for real-time changes (e.g. temporarily unswallowing a parent)
- more than xswallow?
- xbelld without audio underrun bug
- screen dimmer overlay
- demo videos