Support Wayland

[ronjouch]

Starting points:

• Google for wmctrl wayland and xdotool wayland.
• Discuss: IRC: (#wayland on freenode), mailing-list, r/wayland.
• See how other x11-dependent apps cope with it: Add Wayland support autokey/autokey#87, Feature Request: Support for wayland. mkropat/jumpapp#18, which points to gnome shell extension https://github.com/CZ-NIC/run-or-raise .
  • For more inspiration to develop a Shell extension, see PaperWM, base Shell js code, and gjs docs

[khimaros]

for Gnome, another approach used by gnome-magic-window is the dbus interface to org.gnome.Shell.Eval which provides a global.get_window_actors() to list all active windows.

for example: gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval "global.get_window_actors().map(w => [w.toString(), w.get_meta_window().get_wm_class()]);"

[ronjouch]

for Gnome, another approach used by gnome-magic-window is the dbus interface to org.gnome.Shell.Eval which provides a global.get_window_actors() to list all active windows.

@khimaros ooooh interesting, thanks! I'm using Shell myself. Giving gnome-magic-window a try, then depending on whether there's a functionality gap between it and marathon, I'll either steal the idea, or simply recommend Wayland folks to switch to it.

EDIT in addition to gnome-magic-window, see also GNOME Shell extension "run-or-raise"