Customize Wmii - Select View
Posted by sky | Tags: Linux, Open-Source, Personal, Python, tagging, testing, window manager
wmii is a window manager for X11.
By default, the hotkey Mod+1 will switch the desktop to view "1", Mod+2 will switch the desktop to view "2", and this is done similarly for all numbers from 0 to 9.
I am tagging windows using a name with a number prefix, like 0_vi, 1_file, 2_web . The customization is to make the Mod+<number> key switch to the <number> view or the next closest view. In my examples, Mod+0 will switch to view "0_vi", Mod+1 will switch to view "1_file".
I make the customization using the Python script.
In /etc/X11/wmii/python/pygmi/fs.py, in Tags.next method, an additional param tag is used to indicate the <number> tag or the next closest one that should be returned.
1 class Tags(object):
2
3 ...
4
5 def next(self, reverse=False, tag=None):
6 tags = [t for t in wmii.tags if t.id not in self.ignore]
7 tags.append(tags[0])
8 if reverse:
9 tags.reverse()
10 # assume ordered tags?
11 if tag:
12 for i in range(0, len(tags)):
13 if tags[i].id >= tag:
14 return tags[i]
15 else:
16 for i in range(0, len(tags)):
17 if tags[i] == self.sel:
18 return tags[i+1]
19 return self.sel
20 In /etc/X11/wmii/python/wmiirc.py, change the keys binding
1 def bind_num(i):
2 keys.bind('main', (
3 "Tag actions",
4 # lambda k: tags.select(str(i))),
5 ('%%(mod)s-%d' % i, "Move to view '%d'" % i,
6 lambda k: tags.select(tags.next(tag=str(i)))),
7 ('%%(mod)s-Shift-%d' % i, "Retag selected client with tag '%d'" % i,
8 lambda k: setattr(Client('sel'), 'tags', i)),
9 ))
10 Ok, we can now test the changes with:
wmii -r python/wmiirc &