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4 Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
5 * (c) 2016, Luke Bonham
9 local awful = require("awful")
10 local capi = { client = client,
17 local setmetatable = setmetatable
18 local tostring = tostring
20 -- Quake-like Dropdown application spawn
21 -- Original version: https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Drop-down_terminal#Another_solution
24 -- If you have a rule like "awful.client.setslave" for your terminals,
25 -- ensure you use an exception for QuakeDD. Otherwise, you may
26 -- run into problems with focus.
28 function quake:display()
29 -- First, we locate the client
32 for c in awful.client.iterate(function (c)
33 -- c.name may be changed!
34 return c.instance == self.name
35 end, nil, self.screen)
41 -- Additional matching clients, let's remove the sticky bit
42 -- which may persist between awesome restarts. We don't close
43 -- them as they may be valuable. They will just turn into
51 if not client and not self.visible then return end
54 -- The client does not exist, we spawn it
55 awful.util.spawn(self.app .. " " .. string.format(self.argname, self.name) ..
56 " " .. self.extra, false, self.screen)
62 awful.client.floating.set(client, true)
63 client.border_width = self.border
64 client.size_hints_honor = false
66 client:geometry(self.geometry)
70 -- Not sticky and on top
73 client.skip_taskbar = true
80 self.last_tag = tostring(awful.tag.selected(self.screen))
81 client:tags({awful.tag.selected(self.screen)})
82 capi.client.focus = client
85 local ctags = client:tags()
86 for i, t in pairs(ctags) do
95 function quake:new(config)
96 local conf = config or {}
98 conf.app = conf.app or "xterm" -- application to spawn
99 conf.name = conf.name or "QuakeDD" -- window name
100 conf.argname = conf.argname or "-name %s" -- how to specify window name
101 conf.extra = conf.extra or "" -- extra arguments
102 conf.visible = conf.visible or false -- initially not visible
103 conf.screen = conf.screen or capi.mouse.screen
104 conf.border = conf.border or 1
106 -- If width or height <= 1 this is a proportion of the workspace
107 wibox_height = conf.wibox_height or 18 -- statusbar weight
108 height = conf.height or 0.25 -- height
109 width = conf.width or 1 -- width
110 vert = conf.vert or "top" -- top, bottom or center
111 horiz = conf.horiz or "center" -- left, right or center
114 local geom = capi.screen[conf.screen].workarea
115 if width <= 1 then width = geom.width * width end
116 if height <= 1 then height = geom.height * height end
118 if horiz == "left" then x = geom.x
119 elseif horiz == "right" then x = geom.width + geom.x - width
120 else x = geom.x + (geom.width - width)/2 end
121 if vert == "top" then y = geom.y
122 elseif vert == "bottom" then y = geom.height + geom.y - height
123 else y = geom.y + (geom.height - height)/2 end
124 conf.geometry = { x = x, y = y + wibox_height, width = width, height = height }
126 local console = setmetatable(conf, { __index = quake })
127 capi.client.connect_signal("manage", function(c)
128 if c.instance == console.name and c.screen == console.screen then
132 capi.client.connect_signal("unmanage", function(c)
133 if c.instance == console.name and c.screen == console.screen then
134 console.visible = false
138 -- "Reattach" currently running quake application. This is in case awesome is restarted.
139 local reattach = capi.timer { timeout = 0 }
140 reattach:connect_signal("timeout", function()
149 function quake:toggle()
150 current_tag = awful.tag.selected(self.screen)
151 if self.last_tag ~= tostring(current_tag) and self.visible then
152 awful.client.movetotag(current_tag, self:display())
154 self.visible = not self.visible
159 setmetatable(quake, { __call = function(_, ...) return quake:new(...) end })