ipc

Description

Largely based on raphi's somebar, this patch provides an ipc for wayland clients to get and set dwl state. The ipc is intended for status bars, but can also be scripted with dwlmsg.

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• 2023-11-30 The patch for the dwl version for wlroots 0.17, is updated to the 2023-10-28 version.
• 2023-10-28 Updated version of 2023-04-29, prevents ipc from freezing the compositor in printstatus.
• 2023-04-29 Use this for dwl-ipc-unstable-v2. If you are using commit 9d68554 or later, use this. For status bars this protocol is supported by dwlb, Waybar and dwl-bar.
• 2023-04-29 Use this for dwl-ipc-unstable-v1. If you are using commit bbdaf2a9, release 0.4 or earlier, use this. For status bars, this protocol is supported by dwl-bar.
• 2023-02-20 Use this for net-tapesoftware-dwl-wm-unstable-v1. If you are using commit c69a2bec or later, use this. For status bars this protocol is supported by somebar.

Authors

• MadcowOG
• NFVblog