For `event_closewindow`, how do I get the target window's `WINDOWADDRESS`?

[kohane27]

Program

shellevents

Maintainers of the program

trippwill

Bug or Regression?

Bug

Description

Hello! Hope you're doing well.

It's not exactly a bug. I'm trying to use event_closewindow but run into issues: how do I get the target window's WINDOWADDRESS?

event_openwindow provides WINDOWCLASS so it's easy to do so:

event_openwindow() {
    # WINDOWADDRESS WORKSPACENAME WINDOWCLASS WINDOWTITLE
    case "$WINDOWCLASS" in "firefox")
        bash "$HOME"/.config/zsh/scripts/enable-audio.sh
        ;;
    esac
}

But I can't do the same for event_closewindow because it only provides WINDOWADDRESS:

event_closewindow() {
    # WINDOWADDRESS
}

I tried the following:

event_closewindow() {
    # WINDOWADDRESS
    target_address=$(hyprctl --batch clients -j | jq -r '.[] | select(.class == "firefox") | .address')
    if [[ "$WINDOWADDRESS" == "$target_address" ]]; then
        bash "$HOME"/.config/zsh/scripts/disable-audio.sh
    fi
}

But the window is already closed so target_address is always null.

Any input is much appreciated. Thank you.

[vaxerski]

it's right here.

[kohane27]

Hello it's the creator of Hyprland!

Apologies of my unclear question. I know that I can get the WINDOWADDRESS. I meant how do I get the WINDOWCLASS or WINDOWTITLE from the WINDOWADDRESS.

The WINDOWADDRESS changes on reboot so the following doesn't work:

event_closewindow() {
    # WINDOWADDRESS
    case "$WINDOWADDRESS" in "5a6b54d80ba0")
        bash "$HOME"/.config/zsh/scripts/disable-audio.sh
        ;;
    esac
}

Basically I want the following:

    case "$WINDOWCLASS" in "firefox")
        bash "$HOME"/.config/zsh/scripts/disable-audio.sh
        ;;
    esac

but in event_closewindow instead of event_openwindow. Thanks again!

[vaxerski]

you can't from the IPC as the window is already gone. You'll need to cache those states (probably launch hyprctl clients once and then just cache window open events)