dwl-state

Command-line tool to get dwl's state through the dwl-ipc protocol

Dependencies

Make sure dwl has the ipc patch applied before running. Also, make sure these packages are available.

• make
• wayland
• wayland-protocols

Compilation

Use make to compile, and make install to install, uninstall with make uninstall.

Usage

There are nouns and verbs. Nouns determine what object your verbs will act on. Verbs determine what information you will get from the noun you choose. By default if no nouns are provided but verbs are provided the active output and active tag are used (of course depending on the verb). If you don't want any labels (the name of the noun) in the output use the -n flag.

Ipc Protocol

Make sure if your using the version 2 of the protocol. To use the ipc-v2 branch.