I've been trying to use alt as my escape key but haven't been able to get it to work. I have the following in my ~/.config/cagebreak/config

escape A

bind t exec foot
bind q close

and nothing happens with I try to use them after rebooting.

I want to st autostarting all of my apliciations. The problem is that when an applicaiton starts in the autostart, it only launchs in the first workspace. I am wondering if there is a wayto clauch applciation in another workspace.

Seems to have been broken by:
f8df676

As of right now, the actions which can be run in the config file and the actions which can be run
as a keybinding are parsed separately in parse.c. This leads to a lot of code duplication. Furthermore, unifying these functionalities would enable a more versatile configuration. For instance,
it would enable the user to write hsplit into the configuration file to split the output on startup and
workspace 2 to set the default workspace to workspace 2. Therefore, this change would simplify the code base, while at the same time increasing the feature set.

PS: As a side effect, this would allow quirky statements such as bind d bind r hsplit which would bind the d key to binding the r key to split the output...

I'm using v. 1.8.1 and am experiencing a screen refresh lag, particularly on Firefox:

When I type in anything, the text is refreshed and becomes visible only following mouse movement. I don't experience this with the same setup when I use Sway as the compositor.

Is it possible to implement undo/redo, as in ratpoison:

@deffn Command undo
Undo the last change of frame layout. This is especially helpful
after a @command{only} command. One can step at most @dfn{maxundos}
steps back in frame layout history.
@EnD deffn

@deffn Command redo
redo the last change that was undone.
@EnD deffn

(from ratpoison-1.4.9/doc/ratpoison.texi)

Is this possible?If so, what tool or workaround is requiresd?

What is the "proper way" to launch a programs, since cagebreak doesn't support "traditional" launchers, and launching from the terminal leaves a terminal unusable?

Unless there is already a way to use scratchpads, I think that it would be a good feature to add to the window manager.

Hello, In ratpoision, I can do that with C-t t, which will send C-t to the current window. It seems cagebreak doesn't have a command to do that.

Thank you!

reallocarray(3) is not in POSIX thus not visible with _POSIX_C_SOURCE. Linux cheats POSIX via _DEFAULT_SOURCE but on BSDs the cheat knob is different (__BSD_VISIBLE on DragonFly/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and _NETBSD_SOURCE on NetBSD).

$ cc --version
FreeBSD clang version 15.0.6 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-15.0.6-0-g088f33605d8a)
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd14.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

$ meson setup _build
$ meson compile -C _build
[...]
../cagebreak.c:197:11: warning: call to undeclared function 'reallocarray'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
                        line = reallocarray(line, line_length, sizeof(char));
                               ^
../cagebreak.c:197:9: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'char *' from 'int' [-Wint-conversion]
                        line = reallocarray(line, line_length, sizeof(char));
                             ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Note, on Clang < 15 -Wint-conversion doesn't error out, so the implicit declaration of reallocarray sometimes leads to crashes.

Similar to djpohly/dwl#177. Xwayland works fine elsewhere: cage, hikari, kwinft, labwc, phoc, river, sway, wayfire.

$ cagebreak
[...]
00:00:00.085 [xwayland/server.c:92] Starting Xwayland on :0
00:00:00.116 [render/swapchain.c:105] Allocating new swapchain buffer
00:00:00.118 [render/allocator/gbm.c:142] Allocated 1280x720 GBM buffer (format 0x34325258, modifier 0x100000000000004)
00:00:00.118 [render/gles2/renderer.c:143] Created GL FBO for buffer 1280x720
00:00:00.160 [types/wlr_surface.c:748] New wlr_surface 0x880d81f80 (res 0x86f22d380)
00:00:00.165 [xwayland/server.c:243] waitpid for Xwayland fork failed: No child processes
(EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0

$ cc --version
FreeBSD clang version 11.0.1 ([email protected]:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-11.0.1-0-g43ff75f2c3fe)
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd13.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

$ pkg info -x cagebreak wayland wlroots
cagebreak-1.8.3
wayland-1.20.0
wayland-protocols-1.25
xwayland-devel-21.0.99.1.171
wlroots-0.15.1

Hey I am wondering how to set a keybind to togglig top mode. For exaple C-t enters top mode and exits after I do something. If I want to do multiple things in a row it is more efficent to also have a keybind to toggel top mode like resize.

Any chance we ll get gaps or selected frame border? I use terminals a lot and its kinda hard to know which on is selected since they share background.

On multi-monitor setups there is an ordering issue with regard to screens/outputs.

I have the following 4 monitor configuration:

video card configuration:

$ ls /sys/class/drm
card0 card0-DP-1 card0-DVI-D-1 card0-DVI-I-1 card0-HDMI-A-1 card1 card1-DP-2 card1-DP-3 card1-DP-4 card1-HDMI-A-2 renderD128 renderD129 version

sway/config setting:

output HDMI-A-1 resolution 1920x1080 position 0,0
output DVI-I-1 resolution 1920x1080 position 1920,0
output DVI-D-1 resolution 1920x1080 position 3840,0
output HDMI-A-2 resolution 3840x2160 position 5760,0

$ wayland-info | grep xdg_output -A 5

interface: 'zxdg_output_manager_v1', version: 3, name: 18

xdg_output_v1
	output: 31
	name: 'HDMI-A-1'
	description: 'Goldstar Company Ltd 23EA63  (HDMI-A-1)'
	logical_x: 0, logical_y: 0
	logical_width: 1920, logical_height: 1080

xdg_output_v1
	output: 30
	name: 'DVI-I-1'
	description: 'Goldstar Company Ltd 23EA63 312INQUC8516 (DVI-I-1 via DVI-D)'
	logical_x: 1920, logical_y: 0
	logical_width: 1920, logical_height: 1080

xdg_output_v1
	output: 29
	name: 'DVI-D-1'
	description: 'Goldstar Company Ltd 23EA63 401INJL0F588 (DVI-D-1)'
	logical_x: 3840, logical_y: 0
	logical_width: 1920, logical_height: 1080

xdg_output_v1
	output: 28
	name: 'HDMI-A-2'
	description: 'Sharp Corporation SHARP HDMI 0x00000000 (HDMI-A-2)'
	logical_x: 5700, logical_y: 0
	logical_width: 3840, logical_height: 2160

Cagebreak defaults:

Output location when opening first application without prevscreen/nextscreen: DVI-I-1.

Here DVI-I-1, the second logical output, is taken as the currently active output.

Output location when opening first application after calling prevscreen: DVI-D-1 (third logical output)
Output location when opening first application after calling nextscreen: HDMI-A-1 (first logical output)

Here prevscreen and prevnext take HDMI-A-2, the fourth logical output, as the currently active output.

This isn't an issue per se, but concerns cagebreak terminology. I won't try to cover the entire range of terms used but stick to the ones that concern me at the moment:

OK, so I get the use of the terms 'output', 'workspace' and 'tile'.

So my question: In cagebreak, what exactly is a 'screen'? At the moment, the use of nextscreen, prevscreen, movetoscreen, movetonextscreen, movetoprevscreen all seem to suggest that 'screen' is the same as 'output'. If so, shouldn't all the aforementioned commands have screen replaced with output? eg. nextoutput, prevoutput, etc.

The configuration man page for the input send events setting is missing the events word:

diff --git man/cagebreak-config.5.md man/cagebreak-config.5.md
index 4eea4c5..c618314 100644
--- man/cagebreak-config.5.md
+++ man/cagebreak-config.5.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ by prepending a line with the # symbol.
        *dwt enabled|disabled*
                Enables or disables disable-while-typing for the specified input device.
 
-       *enabled|disabled|disabled_on_external_mouse*
+       *events enabled|disabled|disabled_on_external_mouse*
                Enables or disables send_events for specified input device. Disabling
                send_events disables the input device.

Slightly off topic: I was hoping to use this setting to hide the mouse cursor, but it doesn't work. My embedded system must expose a pointer device even though none is connected, altough I can only infer that much because the system is very bare bones and I can't check. Is there a way to do that?

Greetings, It took me a while to get back. Hope all is well at Team Cagebreak.

Now I have Cagebreak 1.9.1-1 installed on my updated Arch Linux box.

While the cursor itself responds to movement, mouse clicks do not evoke any response.

Hi,

After browsing through the current code in message.c and ipc_server.c, I figured the answer might be no, but is there a way to send a message command displaying multiple lines ?

From my understanding, commands sent to the IPC socket must be terminated with a \n, so it doesn't appear to be possible, but I might have missed something (double-escaping inside the message with '\n' is rendered verbatim so it doesn't work either).

I'm trying to implement an equivalent to ratpoison's (or stumpwm) 'windows' command using IPC, starting from the show_workspace_views.sh example script

thanks,

While fully recognizing - and appreciating - Cagebreak's keyboard orientation, would it be possible to accommodate support for screen change on mouse over? This would help avoid a series of key presses on multi-screen setups and improve overall ergonomics.

Thanks.

This is with reference to issue #13. Earlier I thought changes to my setup were working but I find in fact that it isn't.

Based on advice in #13 I have a call to a shell script from my config file which is currently setup this way:

echo "prevscreen" | nc -i 1 -U $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET
emacsclient -a "" -c -F "((name . "dired"))" &
sleep 1 &
firefox &disown
sleep 10 &
echo "nextscreen" | nc -i 1 -U $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET
emacsclient -a "" -c -F "((name . "cider"))" &
sleep 1 &
echo "nextscreen" | nc -i 1 -U $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET
emacsclient -a "" -c -F "((name . "org"))" &
sleep 1 &
echo "prevscreen" | nc -i 1 -U $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET

However, calls to Cagebreak's screen commands continue to execute immediately and don't wait for shell commands to time out.

Hello!

I am, huh, a mere package maintainer. This is a simple suggestion: use scdoc to generate manpages, instead of pandoc.

The advantages are:

• scdoc is tailored to generate manpages from markdown-like sources;
• scdoc is smaller
• scdoc has less dependencies

Hello, I have two outputs (or heads) eDP-1 and HDMA-A-1, and always want to disable eDP-1, how to do it?

Thank you!

If process A is already listening for cagebreak events via IPC, it would be helpful if process B could relay a custom event through the socket to process A.

Herbstluftwm has this functionality via emit_hook.

This can sort of be accomplished by abusing the definemode command with the mode being the message to pass (without spaces) to the process listening to IPC events. The modes are saved by cagebreak though, so these will quickly stack up and there doesn't seem to be a complement deletemode command. But this isn't the purpose of definemode anyway.

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way to remove a single split. I looked into the manual, only to find only which remove all splits.

Thanks and cagebreak is awesome!

Hi,
Is there a way to easily change de font? "monospace 10" are too small for my eyes. I've changed them in message.c but can you add a configuration option, please?
Same for the display time of these window. They sometimes disappear too fast (mainly time).
May be a config for the background and foreground color of the message window too?

cagebreak is great :)

This is a strange one: If I start Cagebreak automatically at login with ~/.bashrc running 'exec cagebreak', no matter what application I try to run, Firefox is run instead.

I also see this message at the time, though I'm not sure if that is related to an earlier execution of the emacs daemon:

Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221
Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.
Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.

The problem doesn't occur if I log in and start Cagebreak manually.

Is it possible to open new window into already empty tile? It seems it currently always opens in the currently selected tile.

The box in the top right corner displays messages like the time and workspace. I want the color to be consistand with my theme. How do I change it?

Apologies for opening two tickets instead of one, but I thought that these two suggestions are different enought they merit their own "issue".

Would replicating the behaviour in ratpoison (if no config file is found, load predefined defaults) something you would be interested in? I personally found confusing when I first tried cagebreak that it wouldn't start without a config file, coming from ratpoison. Of course, other people's experience might be different.

Hi guys,

Thanks and congratulations on Version 2.0 which I was able to install without any issues.

The current bug existed earlier (in the dev/debug version that I was using) and is present in the new version:

If I turn an output off, I lose my session - everything is closed and a new session is opened.

The wlr/xwayland.h include in output.c:32 is missing an #if CG_HAS_XWAYLAND guard, which breaks building without xwayland.

In config I use Latin letters to configure the shortcuts I want to use. For me having 2 different keyboard layouts it feels overwhelming to keep track of what is current layout to execute cagebreak shortcuts (obv. when it's not english, shorcuts don't work). So here's the question: is there a way to force cagebreak execute shortcuts in both layouts?

This is somewhat related to issue #10. After the fix to the screen refresh lag in Firefox, my mouse pointer/cursor is very frequently (but not always) huge and hard to look at. This occurs when hovering over all applications, not just Firefox.

Also, and I'm not sure if it is related, even with an 'export MOZ_ENABLE_WALYAND=1' setting, xlsclients reports Firefox as a Xorg application and not Wayland as I would expect.

Hi,
cagebreak is not my main compositor but i like it.
Since a few days, Arch Linux updated to wlroots 0.16.1 and cagebreak can't be used anymore without downgrading wlroots.
Do you plan to update to newer wlroots versions soon or do i need to downgrade some packages on my pc?

When I run swaygb, it returns the error [main.c:587] Missing a required Wayland interface.

Now that I have Cagebreak set up very close to my needs, there are a few areas where I would appreciate some help in tweaking it further.

1. Where can I configure my keyboard repeat and delay rates? The current default that I'm getting isn't ideal:
   interface: 'wl_seat', version: 7, name: 10
   name: seat0
   capabilities: pointer keyboard
   keyboard repeat rate: 25
   keyboard repeat delay: 600

2. Is there an idle screen/output handling tool that you could recommend as suitable for Cagebreak? It would be nice to have the monitors blank out when idle for a specified duration.

3. Also, if I turn off an output, or if it isn't on at load time, Cagebreak is unable to access it unless we restart Cagebreak. I've looked at dynamic output managers like Kanshi which seem like the solution. However, it isn't supported by Cagebreak: we get this message 'compositor doesn't support wlr-output-management-unstable-v1'. Regarding this my questions are: what would you recommend for dynamic output management, and, is there any chance you might add support for a tool like kanshi?

TIA

After starting Cagebreak, initial configuration calls to the IPC socket work as usual.
However, after cagebreak/config is executed, if I run this in a terminal:
$ rlwrap nc -U $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET
I get this message:
Ncat: You have to specify path to a socket to connect to. QUITTING.
At this point 'echo $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET' returns nothing.

If I save the value of $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET in cagebreak/config (in the call to my initialization shell script, cb-netcat):
'echo $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET > socket-path'
and use that socket path to access the IPC socket, it works.

So the ipc socket itself isn't the problem just the $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET seems to be getting lost at some point.

In my first post I forgot to thank you for cagebreak. I've been evaluating compositors for my needs and have been through kiwmi, japokwm, wayfire, sway and cagebreak. So far I like cagebreak most of all.

Back to my question:

You currently support 'movetonextscreen' but there is no equivalent movetoprevscreen.
For multiple 3 to 4 screen configurations the second command would be useful.

Also, is it not possible to move to a screen directly, like 'movetoscreen 3'?

The same thing with prevscreen and nextscreen: something like 'focusscreen 3', if it were possible, would be useful.

I'm trying to do a minimal initial layout in config.

When I just have this at the end of my config:
nextscreen
exec firefox
Firefox is correctly opened on what is the nextscreen relative to the default

However, when I try this:
nextscreen
exec firefox
exec sleep 15
nextscreen
exec alacritty
all calls to nextscreen seem to be ignored as both Firefox and alacritty are opened in the default screen, and sleep seems to have no effect no matter what value I set.

Related to this is the slightly confusing status of the default screen:
a) If I don't open any applications via the config file and then run an application, it will run on one screen.
b) If I don't open any applications via the config file, call nextscreen or prevscreen, and then run an application, it opens in a screen different from what it should be if the screen in a) was in fact the default. nextscreen/prevscreen seem to be reading a different default value.

./cagebreak is the git directory.
This is the error:

00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/backend/seatd.c:64] Could not connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: No such file or directory
00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:76] Backend 'seatd' failed to open seat, skipping
00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:76] Backend 'logind' failed to open seat, skipping
00:00:00.000 [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:79] No backend was able to open a seat
00:00:00.000 [backend/session/session.c:83] Unable to create seat: Function not implemented
00:00:00.000 [backend/session/session.c:248] Failed to load session backend
00:00:00.000 [backend/backend.c:86] Failed to start a session
00:00:00.000 [backend/backend.c:357] Failed to start a DRM session
00:00:00.000 [../cagebreak.c:373] Unable to create the wlroots backend

The OS is OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

While testing scripts with the IPC socket I noticed that one core on my 4 core desktop goes to 100% and stays there until the first event occurs and is read by the script, at which point the CPU usage drops back down and the script and event processing seems to progress as expected from then on.

This also occurs when just connecting directly with nc (I tested with both busybox nc and openbsd-netcat), single core CPU goes to 100% until the first event occurs.

The process at 100% is cagebreak -e so it seems like a cagebreak issue at first glance but maybe it's something on the client side?

I'm a novice at troubleshooting this type of thing, but strace is logging a lot of epoll_pwait calls during high CPU and then those taper off dramatically after the first event and CPU usage goes down.

~ $ doas -c -f strace -p 6983
strace: Process 6983 attached with 11 threads
^Cstrace: Process 6983 detached
strace: Process 6984 detached
strace: Process 6985 detached
strace: Process 6986 detached
strace: Process 6987 detached
strace: Process 6988 detached
strace: Process 6989 detached
strace: Process 6990 detached
strace: Process 6991 detached
strace: Process 6992 detached
strace: Process 6993 detached
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
 94.62    2.724267           1   2096153           epoll_pwait
  4.73    0.136285          20      6719        28 ioctl
  0.51    0.014639           5      2913       397 read
  0.09    0.002717           6       428           sendmsg
  0.01    0.000409           3       114           write
  0.01    0.000290           9        32           recvmsg
  0.01    0.000183          10        17           munmap
  0.01    0.000153           8        18           mmap
  0.01    0.000145           6        24           timerfd_settime
  0.00    0.000031           3         8           fcntl
  0.00    0.000014          14         1           accept
  0.00    0.000012           6         2           epoll_ctl
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00    2.879145           1   2106429       425 total

I personally found quite useful when I started with ratpoison to have the cursor change when the escape sequence is pressed and the wm is waiting for a key.

If this ratpoison behaviour is something you think would fit your vision for cagebreak it would be nice to have it :)

Extract from #25 subdivided into a new issue:

I was hoping to use this setting to hide the mouse cursor, but it doesn't work. My embedded system must expose a pointer device even though none is connected, altough I can only infer that much because the system is very bare bones and I can't check. Is there a way to do that?

Additional relevant remark:

Thanks a lot, I'll also try to dig a bit into wlroots and see if there's anything that would allow hiding the cursor.
Would hiding the cursor when no pointer device is enabled be an acceptable solution? Or should it be a separate option?

Hey,

I really like that you are using SPDX license tags in the header comments as proposed by https://reuse.software/spec/, but I think they contain an unwanted " " (space). E.g.

should probably be

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

It's not an issue I guess, I just couldn't find any information on how to interact with the socket.

nc -u $CAGEBREAK_SOCKET 

I get forward host lookup failed. So how do I interact with this socket? Sorry for a noob question, but I would appreciate some examples. If that's inappropriate place to discuss but someone wants to help me -- my discord is exitone hashtag 9183.

Hello,

I have tried to use waybar with cagebreak and I only get the following error message:

[2021-09-24 21:48:49.220] [error] Failed to acquire required resources.

Is cagebreak compatible with waybar?

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.

Hello,

I think switching focus is a bit confusing in some situations. When focus is switched in a direction, it can end up diagonally instead of the frame next to the previously focused one. The minimal example for this is with four frames, but it also applies in layouts with more than four of them.

Let´s say I press the keybindings for these actions:
vsplit, hsplit, focusright, hsplit.
This leaves me with a layout of four simple quarters:

+-----+-----+
|  1  |  2  |
+-----+-----+
|  3  |  4  |
+-----+-----+

Now, using focuslefton frame 2 brings me to frame 3 instead of one. Likewise, focusright on frame 3 brings me to frame 2 instead of frame 4.

As soon as I resize a width, switching works as expected and desired. The oddness however reappears whenever the vertical frame edges are realigned.

The same trouble happens when creating the layout with the keybindings for hsplit, vsplit, focusdown, vsplit. Now, focusing up from frame 3 brings me two frame 2 instead of 1, and same with the symmetrical opposite again (2 downwards is 3 instead of 4). Now resizing heights is what helps until the horizontal edges are realigned.

As said before, similar things occur with more complex layouts. I use those much less frequently of course, but intuitive navigation is even more important then. In these two minimal examples, reaching the frames 1 and 4 is also often more tedious then necessary.

I understand this is due to the way the frames were created and makes some sense in this regard. However, unless there is some reason to keep this behavior (which disappears by some resize options anyways), I´d suggest to change it to be more intuitive.

I imagine an approach for this could be to determine the frames center point and then looking for an adjacent frame in horizontal (vertical) direction from there when focusrightor focusleft (focusdownor focusup) is used.

(Everything said about focus[direction] also applies to exchange[direction].)