Help with Alacritty, scratchpad and ncmpcpp

casperh · 2023-08-25 16:38:24

Hi

I'm trying to make a scratchpad with Alacritty+ncmpcpp so that it'll open when I press super+m. I'm using bspwm with sxhkd.

sxhkdrc:
https://pastebin.com/EU2967cG

The script itself:
https://pastebin.com/SNKEkSrL

The rule in bspwmrc:
https://pastebin.com/advjcUVk

Docbroke · 2023-08-25 18:13:22

What is not working?

seth · 2023-08-25 19:30:06

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class scpad_nc windowunmap || xdotool search --class scpad_nc windowmap windowactivate || exec alacritty -e ncmpcpp --class scpad_nc

idk what alacritty sets, you might have to match "--classname" and possibly "--limit 1"

casperh · 2023-08-25 22:09:33

seth wrote:

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class scpad_nc windowunmap || xdotool search --class scpad_nc windowmap windowactivate || exec alacritty -e ncmpcpp --class scpad_nc
idk what alacritty sets, you might have to match "--classname" and possibly "--limit 1"

Do I put that in the script?

casperh · 2023-08-25 22:11:26

Docbroke wrote:

What is not working?

I've made a scratchpad so that Alacritty opens when I press super+u. It works perfectly. Now I want to open Alacritty with ncmpcpp in another scratchpad. But when I press super+m Alacritty opens and immediately closes again.

Docbroke · 2023-08-26 01:16:14

1. Does your script work as intended when run from terminal? You can try running your script with " bash -x <your script>" to check where it is failing.

2. what is xdo?

Last edited by Docbroke (2023-08-26 01:19:22)

seth · 2023-08-26 06:15:21

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xdo/

casperh wrote:

Do I put that in the script?

Understand what it does, but the main problem is actually sth. else
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/ala … tty.1.en#e

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class scpad_nc windowunmap || xdotool search --class scpad_nc windowmap windowactivate || exec alacritty --class scpad_nc -e ncmpcpp

casperh · 2023-08-26 19:36:38

Docbroke wrote:

1. Does your script work as intended when run from terminal? You can try running your script with " bash -x <your script>" to check where it is failing.
2. what is xdo?

No it doesn't work.

bash -x scpad_nc
++ xdotool search --class scpad_nc
+ winclass=
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ alacritty -e ncmpcpp --class scpad_nc

Maybe it should be xdotool everywhere? I might've misunderstood something. I tried changing it to xdotool but still doesn't work.

casperh · 2023-08-26 19:37:55

I followed this guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmx9fia1PTA

seth · 2023-08-26 19:50:35

Stop following idiots on youtube and read post #7 and esp. the linked manpage paragraph to understand why "alacritty -e ncmpcpp --class scpad_nc" won't work but "alacritty --class scpad_nc -e ncmpcpp" will.

You can probably use xdo instead of xdotool (I've never used the former, no idea whether it works) but there's little point in using two tools that effectively do the same on different syntax.

Arch Linux

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