AnyEvent::I3 - communicate with the i3 window manager
Version 0.07
This module connects to the i3 window manager using the UNIX socket based IPC interface it provides (if enabled in the configuration file). You can then subscribe to events or send messages and receive their replies.
use AnyEvent::I3 qw(:all); my $i3 = i3("~/.i3/ipc.sock"); $i3->connect->recv or die "Error connecting"; say "Connected to i3"; my $workspaces = $i3->message(TYPE_GET_WORKSPACES)->recv; say "Currently, you use " . @{$workspaces} . " workspaces";
...or, using the sugar methods:
use AnyEvent::I3; my $workspaces = i3->workspaces->recv; say "Currently, you use " . @{$workspaces} . " workspaces";
Creates a new AnyEvent::I3 object and returns it. path is the path of the UNIX socket to connect to.
AnyEvent::I3
path
Establishes the connection to i3. Returns an AnyEvent::CondVar which will be triggered with a boolean (true if the connection was established) as soon as the connection has been established.
AnyEvent::CondVar
if ($i3->connect->recv) { say "Connected to i3"; }
Subscribes to the given event types. This function awaits a hashref with the key being the name of the event and the value being a callback.
my %callbacks = ( workspace => sub { say "Workspaces changed" } ); if ($i3->subscribe(\%callbacks)->recv->{success}) say "Successfully subscribed"; }
The special callback with name _error is called when the connection to i3 is killed (because of a crash, exit or restart of i3 most likely). You can use it to print an appropriate message and exit cleanly or to try to reconnect.
_error
my %callbacks = ( _error => sub { my ($msg) = @_; say "I am sorry. I am so sorry: $msg"; exit 1; } ); $i3->subscribe(\%callbacks)->recv;
Sends a message of the specified type to i3, possibly containing the data structure content (or content, encoded as utf8, if content is a scalar), if specified.
type
content
my $reply = $i3->message(TYPE_COMMAND, "reload")->recv; if ($reply->{success}) { say "Configuration successfully reloaded"; }
These methods intend to make your scripts as beautiful as possible. All of them automatically establish a connection to i3 blockingly (if it does not already exist).
Gets the current workspaces from i3.
my $ws = i3->get_workspaces->recv; say Dumper($ws);
Gets the current outputs from i3.
my $outs = i3->get_outputs->recv; say Dumper($outs);
Gets the layout tree from i3 (tree branch only).
my $tree = i3->get_tree->recv; say Dumper($tree);
Makes i3 execute the given command
my $reply = i3->command("reload")->recv; die "command failed" unless $reply->{success};
Michael Stapelberg, <michael at stapelberg.de>
<michael at stapelberg.de>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-anyevent-i3 at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=AnyEvent-I3. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-anyevent-i3 at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc AnyEvent::I3
You can also look for information at:
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=AnyEvent-I3
The i3 window manager website
http://i3.zekjur.net/
Copyright 2010 Michael Stapelberg.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
To install AnyEvent::I3, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm AnyEvent::I3
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install AnyEvent::I3
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.