Hooks¶

• Table of contents
• Hooks
  • Client Hooks
    • client_create
    • client_mode
    • client_gravity
    • client_focus
    • client_rename
    • client_kill
  • Tag Hooks
    • tag_create
    • tag_kill
  • View Hooks
    • view_create
    • view_focus
    • view_kill
  • Other
    • start
    • exit
    • tile
    • reload
  • Examples

Hooks are small blocks of code (Ruby procs or lambdas) that can be called on certain events of the window manager. Many hooks get a subtlext object matching to the type hook, like a client object for the client_create hook.

Generally all hooks can either be used in the config or in a sublet, just the number of arguments varies: Inside of the config hooks have one argument, a hook inside of a sublets has an additional argument - the instance of the sublet itself and this will always be the first argument.

# A hook in the config
on :client_create do |c|
  puts c.name #< Name of the client
end

# A hook in a sublet
on :client_create do |s, c|
  puts s.name #< Name of the sublet
  puts c.name #< Name of the client
end

Client Hooks¶

client_create¶

Triggers on creation of new clients.

on :client_create do |c|
  puts c.name
end

client_mode¶

Triggers whenever a mode of a client is changed.

on :client_mode do |c|
  puts "client=#{c.instance}, urgent=#{c.is_urgent?}" 
end

client_gravity¶

Triggers whenever a the gravity of a client is changed.

on :client_focus do |c|
  puts "client=#{c.instance}, urgent=#{c.is_urgent?}" 
end

client_focus¶

Triggers whenever a client gets focus.

on :client_focus do |c|
  puts c.name
end

client_rename¶

Triggers whenever a client is renamed.

on :client_rename do |c|
  puts c.name
end

client_kill¶

Triggers when a client is killed.

on :client_kill do |c|
  puts c.name
end

Tag Hooks¶

tag_create¶

Triggers when a tag is created.

on :tag_create do |t|
  puts t.name
end

tag_kill¶

Triggers when a tag is killed.

on :tag_kill do |t|
  puts t.name
end

View Hooks¶

view_create¶

Triggers on creation of new views.

on :view_create do |v|
  puts v.name
end

view_focus¶

Triggers on a switch to a view.

on :view_focus do |v|
  puts v.name
end

view_kill¶

Triggers when a view is killed.

on :view_kill do |v|
  puts v.name
end

Other¶

start¶

Triggers on start

on :start do
  puts "Yees" 
end

exit¶

Triggers on exit

on :exit do
  puts "Nooo" 
end

tile¶

Triggers whenever tiling would be needed

on :tile do 
  puts "Insert tiling here" 
end

reload¶

Triggers whenever subtle was reloaded

on :reload do 
  puts "Reloaded config" 
end

Examples¶

Switch to the first view of new client

on :client_create do |c|
  c.views.first.jump
end

Tag a new client with the current view only if it has no other tags

on :client_create do |c|
  cur = Subtlext::View.current

  # Check for empty tags
  if(c.tags.empty?)
    t = Subtlext::Tag[cur.name] rescue nil

    # Create new tag
    if(t.nil?)
      t = Subtlext::Tag.new(cur.name)
      t.save
    end 

    c + t
  end
end