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KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
https://bismuth-forge.github.io/bismuth/
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[DEV]: Remove the necessity to restart KWin to test newer version of the script #200

Open gikari opened 2 years ago

gikari commented 2 years ago

Summary

KWin caches the script and, because of that, it does not load a newer version once it's installed. Either we need to:

  1. Fix this issue in the upstream
  2. Find a way to work around the issue

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ikajdan commented 2 years ago

Would qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure work in that case?

gikari commented 2 years ago

Would qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure work in that case?

Our KCM unloads Bismuth and then loads all the enabled KWin scripts again, calling KWin DBus methods. What I tried:

  1. Change the sources, so that a new random string is printed on script launch.
  2. Disable Bismuth KWin Script part from KCM.
  3. Enable it from there.

Result: no new string is printed.

  1. Same
  2. Disable Bismuth from KCM
  3. Call the "reconfigure" KWin method
  4. Enable Bismuth from KCM

Result: no new string is printed.

  1. Same
  2. Call the "reconfigure" KWin method
  3. Disable Bismuth from KCM
  4. Enable Bismuth from KCM

Result: no new string is printed.

So, the conclusion is that this approach does not work.

gikari commented 2 years ago

Reported an issue upsteam: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445839