[Feature request] Automatic persistent workspaces for Hyprland

[zjeffer]

The current situation

I'm using this plugin to automatically manage persistent workspaces on Hyprland. It sets up keybinds so for example if I press super+3, it will go to the 3rd workspace on the current active monitor.

This works great with @MonstrousOgre's persistent_workspaces feature, where we can tell waybar which workspaces should appear on which monitor.

Say I have 3 monitors, the plugin will create 5 workspaces on every monitor and I have to look at which numbers it assigned to which monitor, so I can update my config.json with those numbers: https://github.com/zjeffer/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/hypr/apps/waybar/config.jsonc#L40

However, the problem is that if you connect a new monitor, waybar won't know which workspaces have to be assigned to it. I have to change my config.json every time a new monitor is connected. If I disconnect a monitor, the plugin might assign different numbers to the monitors that are still connected, so I need to update the config.json again to make sure they match.

My feature request

I would like:

• Every monitor to show 5 workspaces each
• Connecting or disconnecting monitors should update the waybar workspaces automatically
• In the waybar config, instead of a map persistent_workspaces, the ability to specify a fixed number of workspaces for every monitor

A relatively easy fix

The plugin holds a map of all monitors and their respective workspaces, which updates automatically at startup or when a connect or disconnect happens. If we could write a way to get that map from the plugin and pass it to waybar, we could map the workspaces automatically. You wouldn't even need to specify the number of workspaces in the waybar config, waybar could just get the correct amount from the map.

What do you guys think of this idea? Before I look into making changes to the plugin's & waybar's code, is there a better way to achieve what I want?

[zjeffer]

A better idea for a fix, courtesy of @paolobettelini: instead of getting a map from the plugin, just calculate the workspaces by looking at the monitor IDs. For example, with amount_of_monitors set to 10, the monitor with ID 0 would have workspaces 1-10, while monitor with ID 2 would have workspaces 21-30. You don't need any communication between the plugin and waybar, you can just get the monitor IDs from hyprctl monitors, and the amount_of_workspaces could be set in the waybar config.

[zjeffer]

Closing in favour of #2271