kakoune plugin to create predictable clients with the Sway Wayland compositor (WM).
This is a fork of kakoune-i3 with improvements specific to Sway. For compatibility, the i3-commands will be available to the extent possible.
Add sway.kak to your autoload dir: ~/.config/kak/autoload/.
It depends on x11.kak and x11-repl for send-text-functionality.
Or via plug.kak:
plug 'mreppen/kakoune-sway' %{
# Suggested mapping
map global user 3 ': enter-user-mode sway<ret>' -docstring 'Sway mode'
}
As it depends on the x11 module, add this line to your kakrc:
set-option global windowing_modules 'x11'
5 window commands available:
sway-newnew window in the current containersway-new-left← new window on the leftsway-new-right→ new window on the rightsway-new-up↑ new window abovesway-new-down↓ new window below
New windows display a cloned view: same buffer, same line.
A sway user-mode is also declared. With the mapping in the Install section above:
,3k will open a new window above the current one.
If the module x11-repl is loaded, a sway-send-text command is defined to provide the functionality of x11-send-text, and the alias send-text is set to sway-send-text. This requires the packages jq, wl-clipboard, and wtype.
The method for sending text mirrors that of x11-repl, which means copying to the primary clipboard and pasting (wl-clipboard) with emulated shift+insert (wtype). jq is used for parsing Sway data. Any suggestions for improving this are welcome.
Note: just like x11-repl, this finds the correct window by the window name. Some applications, like fish will rename the window by default, and thus break this. Therefore, run the repl with :repl <repl-executable> to avoid this.
| Switch | Description |
|---|---|
| -send-enter | Send a keystroke of <enter> after the text. NOTE: Could be replaced if a similar feature is adopted in default plugins. |
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