axyolotl / sw

🙈 Automatic window hiding daemon/supervisor for X11.

sw

Automatic window hiding daemon/supervisor for X11. It works by listening to X11 remap and destroy events and comparing the PID of parent windows to decide if a window should be hidden or not until the child window is destroyed.

Dependencies

• libxcb
• make, cc or any other compiler/linker

You also need libxcb-res on Linux

Installation

On Linux, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, you need to uncomment two OS-specific lines in config.mk before compiling this.

FreeBSD does not need any changes.

$ git clone https://code.axyria.dev/sw.git && cd sw
$ doas make clean install

Since this is a background process, you should add it to your startup script or any other supervisor method. By default, only applications with the st-256color class name are going to be swallowed. You can change this by editing the config.h file.

Untested on Linux and OpenBSD. Please report any issues, if any are found.

Manual

This is also available as a manual page. You may want to read it through man sw.