-- Quake-like console on top -- Original: -- https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Drop-down_terminal#Another_solution -- Similar to: -- http://git.sysphere.org/awesome-configs/tree/scratch/drop.lua -- but uses a different implementation. The main difference is that we -- are able to detect the Quake console from its name. -- If you have a rule like "awful.client.setslave" for your terminals, -- ensure you use an exception for QuakeConsole1. Otherwise, you may -- run into problems with focus. local awful = require("awful") local capi = { client = client, mouse = mouse, screen = screen, timer = timer } local string = string local pairs = pairs local setmetatable = setmetatable module("quake") local QuakeConsole = {} -- Display console function QuakeConsole:display() -- First, we locate the client local client = nil local i = 0 for c in awful.client.iterate(function (c) -- c.name may be changed! return c.instance == self.name end, nil, self.screen) do i = i + 1 if i == 1 then client = c else -- Additional matching clients, let's remove the sticky bit -- which may persist between awesome restarts. We don't close -- them as they may be valuable. They will just turn into -- normal clients. c.sticky = false c.ontop = false c.above = false end end if not client and not self.visible then return end if not client then -- The client does not exist, we spawn it awful.util.spawn(self.app .. " " .. string.format(self.argname, self.name), false, self.screen) return end -- Resize awful.client.floating.set(client, true) client.border_width = 0 client.size_hints_honor = false client:geometry(self.geometry) -- Sticky and on top client.ontop = true client.above = true client.skip_taskbar = true client.sticky = true -- This is not a normal window, don't apply any specific keyboard stuff client:buttons({}) client:keys({}) -- Toggle display if self.visible then client.hidden = false client:raise() client:tags({awful.tag.selected(self.screen)}) capi.client.focus = client else client.hidden = true local ctags = client:tags() for i, t in pairs(ctags) do ctags[i] = nil end client:tags(ctags) end end -- Create a console function QuakeConsole:new(config) local conf = config or {} conf.app = conf.app or "xterm" -- application to spawn conf.name = conf.name or "QuakeDD" -- window name conf.argname = conf.argname or "-name %s" -- how to specify window name conf.visible = conf.visible or false -- initially not visible conf.screen = conf.screen or capi.mouse.screen -- If width or height <= 1 this is a proportion of the workspace wibox_height = conf.wibox_height or 18 -- statusbar weight height = conf.height or 0.25 -- height width = conf.width or 1 -- width vert = conf.vert or "top" -- top, bottom or center horiz = conf.horiz or "center" -- left, right or center -- Compute size local geom = capi.screen[conf.screen].workarea if width <= 1 then width = geom.width * width end if height <= 1 then height = geom.height * height end local x, y if horiz == "left" then x = geom.x elseif horiz == "right" then x = geom.width + geom.x - width else x = geom.x + (geom.width - width)/2 end if vert == "top" then y = geom.y elseif vert == "bottom" then y = geom.height + geom.y - height else y = geom.y + (geom.height - height)/2 end conf.geometry = { x = x, y = y + wibox_height, width = width-2, height = height } local console = setmetatable(conf, { __index = QuakeConsole }) capi.client.connect_signal("manage", function(c) if c.instance == console.name and c.screen == console.screen then console:display() end end) capi.client.connect_signal("unmanage", function(c) if c.instance == console.name and c.screen == console.screen then console.visible = false end end) -- "Reattach" currently running quake application. This is in case awesome is restarted. local reattach = capi.timer { timeout = 0 } reattach:connect_signal("timeout", function() reattach:stop() console:display() end) reattach:start() return console end -- Toggle the console function QuakeConsole:toggle() self.visible = not self.visible self:display() end setmetatable(_M, { __call = function(_, ...) return QuakeConsole:new(...) end })