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authorPhil Jones <philj56@gmail.com>2022-07-27 15:00:05 +0100
committerPhil Jones <philj56@gmail.com>2022-07-27 15:12:26 +0100
commitdf3495a160878fd28e3642b47087024429bd512f (patch)
tree2f784c35706fec01fa34e410765deed61480b921 /doc/tofi.1.md
parentcf9669976601697be36e21e3359709f09c31d9da (diff)
Fix window workspaces in drun mode.
Previously, tofi-drun would print the filename of the selected .desktop file to stdout. This could then be passed to `xargs swaymsg exec gio launch` to be executed. The problem is that this ends up defeating the purpose of passing the command to swaymsg exec, and the workspace the command was selected on may not be the one that it starts up on, if for example it takes a long time and the user switches workspaces in the meantime. The solution is to instead print the Exec= line from the .desktop file, and pass that directly to `xargs swaymsg exec --` for execution. To avoid too much breaking of configs for the few people who use tofi currently, this commit adds a new option, --drun-print-exec, to enable the fixed behaviour. A future release will change this to be the default, however.
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@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ When invoked via the name **tofi-drun**, **tofi** will not accept items
on stdin, and will generate a list of applications from desktop files as
described in the Desktop Entry Specification.
+**WARNING**: Currently, when a selection is made in drun mode, the
+filename of the selected desktop file is printed to stdout. In the next
+version of tofi, this will change to an executable command line, to be
+passed to swaymsg exec or similar. The new behaviour can be enabled now
+by passing --drun-print-exec=true to tofi-drun.
+
**tofi-compgen** just prints the list of executables used by
**tofi-run**.