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xvlaze
xvlaze

Reputation: 869

AwesomeWM shows loading icon when changing wallpaper from rc.lua

I am trying to do something similar to a Compiz effect I liked a lot in Reddit. I have tweaked my rc.lua in a way that, when Super+R is pressed, every client gets hidden, the wallpaper changes to a blurred one (stored in another directory) and Rofi spawns:

So now I can go from here:

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To here:

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HOW TO REPRODUCE:

The code I used for this is the following:

wallpaper.sh: this script allows me to change my wallpaper from the command line. It also creates a blurred version of the wallpaper in order to be used every time I call Rofi.

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $1 != "" ]] && [ -f $1 ]; then
    cp $1 /usr/local/share/awesome/themes/modded/background.png
    convert $1 -blur 0x6 /usr/local/share/awesome/themes/modded/background-blurred.png
    feh --bg-fill $1
else
    echo 'Invalid file!'
fi

rc.lua function: this function deals with the keystroke "Mod4+R", hiding all clients, blurring the wallpaper and spawning Rofi:

  awful.key({ modkey }, "r", 
          function ()
              myscreen           = awful.screen.focused()
              commandPrompter    = "rofi -show run -normal-window"    
              blur               = "feh --bg-scale /usr/local/share/awesome/themes/modded/background-blurred.png"
              unblur             = "feh --bg-fill /usr/local/share/awesome/themes/modded/background.png"

              for _, t in ipairs(mouse.screen.tags) do 
                  if client.name ~= "rofi" then
                      awful.tag.viewtoggle(t) 
                  end
              end
                     
              myscreen.mywibox.visible = false
              awful.spawn(commandPrompter)        
              awful.spawn(blur) -- Causes mouse to change to loading icon!!                  
          end),

rc.lua function 2: this function is located at the very end of my rc.lua file and activates whenever a client called "rofi" closes (throws an unmanage signal). The function will make everything return to normal, unblurring the wallpaper and toggling the clients and the wibox.

--Makes the wibar appear when Rofi exits.
client.connect_signal("unmanage", function(c)
     myscreen = awful.screen.focused()
       if c.class == "Rofi" then
                     for _, t in ipairs(mouse.screen.tags) do 
                                awful.tag.viewtoggle(t) 
                     end
                     awful.spawn(unblur)        -- Causes mouse to change to loading icon!!
                         myscreen.mywibox.visible = true                  
       end
end)

Pressing Mod4+R will cause the problem to appear.

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Important detail: Strangely, Gnome Screenshot won't show the 'loading' pointer, converting it to the regular arrow one. I had to take a picture from my phone in order to show the real pointer to you. Sorry!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1433

Answers (1)

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee
Emmanuel Lepage Vallee

Reputation: 2762

You need to add false as the second parameter of awful.spawn. This disable the protocol commands are supposed to implement to notify the window manager they are done initializing.

Upvotes: 3

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