A way to display simple info about the layout state.

[hfytr]

Missing behavior

Hello, I would like to add a few commands which display information related to the current layout, specifically the current count / wide-count. This would be very helpful for making custom waybar modules.

Desired solution

Perhaps the wideriver binary (or a separate binary) could have a --print-count flag for example. This would work pretty well, and i imagine would be quite simple to implement.

Ideas

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[alex-courtis]

That's a great idea!

There's currently an undocumented "feature" that will display the count and ratio, when you're running with --log-threshold debug. It sounds like it may not match your use, however if it does we could make it a first class feature.

We can definitely add commands to do this. Something like

--get-count
--get-ratio

riverctl send-layout-cmd wideriver "--get-count"

We could also add the layout and stack for completeness.

Edit: there does not appear to be a means to return any sort of output string from a layout command.

The simplest course of action may to add a user defined layout strings, defined at startup. Perhaps something like:

--layout-name-wide 'H H $count'
--layout-name-left '$count I H $ratio'

printf format strings should not be used for security.

Waybar could simply show the layout string, process via a regex, or the user could implement a custom module.

Pull Requests are most gratefully appreciated!