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.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/tofi.1.scd b/doc/tofi.1.scd
index d15d394..38ed290 100644
--- a/doc/tofi.1.scd
+++ b/doc/tofi.1.scd
@@ -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*.
 
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