https://github.com/szos/swmipc

An IPC client for StumpWM
https://github.com/szos/swmipc

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An IPC client for StumpWM

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/szos/swmipc
• Owner: szos
• Created: 2022-05-17T05:55:12.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-17T06:21:00.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T04:38:29.351Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 25.4 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.org

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README

        
#+TITLE: StumpWM IPC

A simple IPC server for StumpWM

* Description

  This is a simple IPC server for StumpWM, with an accompanying C client. This

  was written mainly to make myself familiar with unix domain sockets; StumpWM

  already has an IPC method based upon X11 atoms.

* Building

  The lisp server can be quickloaded, and the server started with the function

  ~#'simple-ipc-server:start-server~. The client can be built by the usual

  ~./autogen.sh~ ~./configure~ ~make~ ~make install~. After building, run

  ~swmipc --help~ for a list of options and their descriptions. 

  

* Usage

  The ~swmipc~ executable can send commands to be executed as well as lisp forms

  to be evaluated. To evaluate lisp forms the variable

  ~simple-ipc-server:*allow-evaluation*~ must be ~T~. There is also an

  interactive mode which reads input from the user and sends the appropriate

  request.

  When reading commands from stdin every line is treated as a single command

  invocation.

  During evaluation, standard output is bound to the socket stream, and printing

  to standard output will print back to swmipc.

** Examples

   #+begin_src sh

     $ swmipc -c echo-date "gnew mygroup"

     Tue May 17 2022  7:18:05

     $ swmipc -fi

     swmipc> echo-windows

      0*St

     swmipc> echo ^1Hi

     Hi

     swmipc> ^D

     $ swmipc -fi

     swmipc> swmipc quit

     $ cat forms.lisp | swmipc -e -

     ...

     $ cat one-cmd-per-line.txt | swmipc -c "echo Running commands from file" -

   #+end_src

   

** Notification Script

   An example notification script:

   #+begin_src sh

     #!/bin/sh

     txt="^[^3NOTIFICATION:^] $@"

     swmipc -fc "echo $txt"

   #+end_src