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Geany editor: Wrapper for per-workspace instances, opening in most recently focused window, and more
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| GEANY_PATH="/usr/bin/geany" | |
| main() { | |
| OPTS=$(getopt -o hc:gPil:mnprstvV -l help,help-all,help-gtk,column:,config:,ft-names,generate-tags,no-preprocessing,new-instance,socket-file:,list-documents,line:,no-msgwin,no-ctags,no-plugins,print-prefix,read-only,no-session,no-terminal,vte-lib:,verbose,version,display: -n geanywl -- "$@") | |
| eval set -- "$OPTS" | |
| SKIP= | |
| NEW_INSTANCE= | |
| PARAMS=() | |
| # https://gist.github.com/cosimo/3760587 | |
| while true; do | |
| ARG1="$1" | |
| ARG2= | |
| case "$1" in | |
| -h | --help | --help-all | --help-gtk) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| --column ) ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| -c | --config ) ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| --ft-names ) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| -g | --generates-tags ) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| -P | --no-preprocessing ) shift ;; | |
| -i | --new-instance ) NEW_INSTANCE=true; ARG1=""; shift ;; | |
| --socket-file ) SKIP=true; ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| --list-documents ) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| -l | --line ) ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| -m | --no-msgwin ) shift ;; | |
| -n | --no-ctags ) shift ;; | |
| -p | --no-plugins ) shift ;; | |
| --print-prefix ) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| -r | --read-only ) shift ;; | |
| -s | --no-session ) shift ;; | |
| -t | --no-terminal ) shift ;; | |
| --vte-lib ) ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| -v | --verbose ) shift ;; | |
| -V | --version ) SKIP=true; shift ;; | |
| --display ) ARG2="$2"; shift 2 ;; | |
| -- ) shift; break ;; | |
| * ) break ;; | |
| esac | |
| [ "$ARG1" ] && PARAMS+=("$ARG1") | |
| [ "$ARG2" ] && PARAMS+=("$ARG2") | |
| done | |
| FILES="$@" | |
| [ "$FILES" ] && PARAMS+=("$@") | |
| if [ "$SKIP" = true ]; then | |
| exec_geany | |
| fi | |
| if [ ! "$FILES" ]; then | |
| NEW_INSTANCE=true | |
| fi | |
| # Unless a new instance is not requested, look for existing instances | |
| if [ ! "$NEW_INSTANCE" = true ]; then | |
| # Check for open instances in the current workspace, and get the | |
| # PID of each. The list may contain false positives, and is sorted | |
| # according to the stacking order (most recently focused). | |
| for pid in $(get_geany_windows); do | |
| # Verify the process user is the current, and that | |
| # the PID corresponds to a process named geany | |
| [[ "$(ps -o uid="" $pid)" -ne "$UID" ]] && continue | |
| [[ $(ps -q $pid -o comm="") != "geany" ]] && continue | |
| # Get the listening unix socket for the PID | |
| socket=$(ss -lpxH | awk "/pid=$pid/"'{ | |
| for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i ~ /^\/.*geany_socket/) print $i | |
| }' | head -n 1) | |
| if [[ "$socket" ]]; then | |
| exec_geany "$socket" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| fi | |
| # Launch new instance | |
| for (( i=0; ; i++ )); do | |
| socket="$HOME/.config/geany/geany_socket_${HOSTNAME}__$i" | |
| # Get UID of owner | |
| owner=$(stat -c "%u" "$socket" 2>/dev/null) | |
| # If the owner var is empty, the file does not exist | |
| if [ -z "$owner" ]; then | |
| exec_geany "$socket" | |
| fi | |
| # If the user does not own the file, we cannot examine it | |
| # If the -e check fails, while the stat earlier succeeded, | |
| # it means the the file is broken symbolic link | |
| if [[ "$owner" -eq "$UID" ]] && [ ! -e "$socket" ]; then | |
| exec_geany "$socket" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| } | |
| exec_geany() { | |
| if [ "$1" ]; then | |
| exec "$GEANY_PATH" --socket-file "$1" "${PARAMS[@]}" | |
| else | |
| exec "$GEANY_PATH" "${PARAMS[@]}" | |
| fi | |
| } | |
| sort_recently_focused_x11() { | |
| recent=$(xprop -root | grep "^_NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING" | tr "," " ") | |
| recent=(${recent##*#}) | |
| wins=() | |
| ids=() | |
| while read -r line; do | |
| wins+=("$line") | |
| ids+=($(grep -o '0x[0-9a-fA-F]\+' <<< "$line")) | |
| done | |
| for (( i=${#recent[@]}-1 ; i>=0 ; i-- )); do | |
| for (( j=0; j<${#ids[@]}; j++ )); do | |
| if [ $((ids[j])) = $((recent[i])) ]; then | |
| echo "${wins[j]}" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| done | |
| } | |
| get_geany_windows_x11() { | |
| wmctrl -lp | grep '0x[0-9a-fA-F]\+ \+'$(wmctrl -d | grep '*' \ | |
| | sed -r 's/([0-9]+).*/\1/g') | grep Geany \ | |
| | sort_recently_focused_x11 \ | |
| | sed -r 's/0x[0-9a-fA-F]+ +[0-9]+ +([0-9]+).*/\1/g' | |
| } | |
| get_geany_windows_kde() { | |
| kdotool kwinscript --inline ' | |
| var currentDesktop = workspace.currentDesktop.x11DesktopNumber; | |
| var windows = workspace.stackingOrder.slice().reverse(); | |
| for(var i = 0; i < windows.length; i++) { | |
| var w = windows[i]; | |
| if(w.resourceClass.toLowerCase() != "geany") continue; | |
| var onCurrentDesktop = w.desktops.length == 0 || w.desktops.some(function(d) { | |
| return d.x11DesktopNumber == currentDesktop; | |
| }); | |
| if(!onCurrentDesktop) continue; | |
| output_result(w.pid); | |
| } | |
| ' | |
| } | |
| get_geany_windows() { | |
| if [[ $XDG_SESSION_TYPE == "x11" ]]; then | |
| get_geany_windows_x11 | |
| elif [[ $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP == "KDE" ]]; then | |
| get_geany_windows_kde | |
| fi | |
| } | |
| main "$@" |
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