Open smurfix opened 1 year ago
I've come across this as well when trying to implement the title to be displayed in the sway-bar status command. When I have a floating window and run "focus parent", there seems to be no event generated (as mentioned). This is a little annoying because this way I cannot update the title bar when there no focus on a window.
I want to write a script that keeps track of Sway's window hierarchy so I don't have to call "get_tree" every time I want to move a window.
However, currently this doesn't seem to be possible.
Sway Version: 1.7
Description:
(a) changing focus doesn't always result in an event
(b) changing the window structure doesn't always cause events
Use case: I'd like to write a little tool that shows the window structure and allows the user to move their windows and containers around. I want it to reflect the actual screen – without eating battery power by doing a preemptive "get_tree" every second.
Use case 2: auto-placing new windows requires an accurate view of the system. Sway behaves in subtly different ways when a window is inside a sub-container.