another-swayrst

Inspired by swayrst from Nama https://github.com/Nama/swayrst/blob/main/README.md. Restore workspaces in sway to displays, optional starts applications, move already open windows to their workspace and restores the layout and size of the windows.

Setup

1. Download
   • From [AUR] yay -S another-swayrst.
   • From Relaeses
     • unzip and install e.g. with pdm pdm install
2. Setup your wanted layout (outputs, workspaces and windows).
3. Run another-swayrst save <profilename> to save.
4. Repeat with another profilename for different setups.
5. Run another-swayrst load <profilename> to restore.

Command Line Options

It is possible to modify the behavior of another-swayrst with commandline options and with a config file.

The syntax is: another-swayrst [<OPTIONS>] save|load|show-config <profilename>

Available Options are:

Option	Values	Description
-v, --log-level	CRITICAL, FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG	Verbosity level of the application, default: WARNING
-c, --config-file	FILE	Config file to use.
--save-current-config	None	Save the current configuration as json-file.
--profile-dir	DIRECTORY	Where to search for / save the layout
--start-missing-apps, --no-start-missing-apps	None	(Not) Start the missing apps automatically.
--command-translation	command_A command_B	Translate command A into B when starting missing apps. (Necessary since some applications are listed with different name in ps.)
--help	None	Show help message and exit.

Development

• Windows are matches based on their executing command in ps. If multiple windows are available a secondary match based on the window title is tried.
• The information about the windows are gathered from swaymsg -t get_tree and ps.

References

• A list of all commands of the ipc service: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#list_of_commands