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Feature request: ratpoison's colon command #27
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Thank you for your suggestions.
(If you want information about the current state of cagebreak via ipc socket, you are just like us and you can check out a new feature on the development branch, where information on the current state can be dumped as json.)
cheers, |
Thank you for the response.
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You can use a tool such as openbsd-netcat to interact with an ipc socket: Anything that can be used as cagebreak configuration (https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak/blob/master/man/cagebreak-config.5.md) can be sent over the socket. Does that help?
Yes, this would be possible. For example, you could bind some key in cagebreak to opening a terminal running a shell script. This shell script would then read a single line " |
thank you for the response
That does help but, after installing netcat-openbsd and running
Yes, it is an aesthetic issue, i'm not thinking about a full fledged customizable bemenu-like launcher, but a small input window similar to the message window already present, that can allow for the execution of cagebreak commands without the need to open another terminal. |
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Well, as you said, cagebreak will probably not be implementing this any time |
ok, thank you |
I'm not sure if this would be outside the scope of what you want cagebreak to be able to do, but would it be possible to be able to execute cagebreak commands either through the command line or though a small gui window similar to ratpoison's colon. Outside of this, and issue #21, cagebreak works great, so thank you.
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