if wcm is going to overwrite the existing config file, can it save a backup copy first before it does?

i usually leave commented out lines as a future reference and wcm will remove them all.

1. Invert
2. Decorations
3. Matcher (it can only be enabled or disabled)
4. idle

Also the tile plugin will soon get outdated.

Actually only editingXDG_CONFIG_HOME/wayfire.ini is possible.
Some users may use a different location or use different configurations, more than one.

I have rebooted. Command output is working fine. However, please see below...

Peter.

i see that there is no
wcm.desktop file in
/usr/share/applications
so add it.

Hello,
I don't know what is the planned for the Windows rules plugin, but I was thinking of something similar to Compiz.
For Workspace this will need to be implemented.
WayfireWM/wayfire#588

I updated my wcm to latest master and now the color picker cannot set the alpha channel anymore.

Before (on commit 4c80340):

Now:

As you can see, the slider at the bottom is gone.

Devs, would you accept a PR with rewriting of the project to gtkmm? Tbh, plain C-style GTK code is pretty hard to read and change.

Hey there,
I just noticed that wcm is crashing on 0.7.0.r9.g2b139dc-2. Clicking on the tabs Mouse, Keyboard and Cursor each crash the tool with the following exception:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
zsh: IOT instruction (core dumped)  wcm

Please fix this!
Thanks!

In particular, I use DPI scale of 2.0. Yet when I change some unrelated settings, like a keyboard shortcut of some plugin, my DPI settings are reset to 1.0 automatically.

$ wcm
Loading plugin: alpha.xml
Loading plugin: oswitch.xml
Loading plugin: fast-switcher.xml
Loading plugin: input.xml
Loading plugin: decoration.xml
Loading plugin: matcher.xml
Loading plugin: move.xml
Loading plugin: core.xml
Loading plugin: cube.xml
Loading plugin: animate.xml
Loading plugin: place.xml
Loading plugin: zoom.xml
Loading plugin: command.xml
Loading plugin: autostart.xml
Loading plugin: vswitch.xml
Loading plugin: expo.xml
Loading plugin: idle.xml
Loading plugin: switcher.xml
Loading plugin: wobbly.xml
Loading plugin: resize.xml
Loading plugin: wrot.xml
Loading plugin: blur.xml
Loading plugin: grid.xml
Loading plugin: invert.xml
Loading plugin: fisheye.xml

/usr/include/c++/9/bits/basic_string.h:1067: std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::reference std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::operator[](std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::size_type) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits; _Alloc = std::allocator; std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::reference = char&; std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion '__pos <= size()' failed.

Aborted (core dumped)

to build here:

gui-apps:wcm-9999:20201209-043101.log.gz

on Gentoo.

Thanks for this awesome project!

The which command is not guaranteed to exist in a POSIX environment. For a portable way of detecting the existence of a command, consider using something else like command -v.

it will be very convenient for having
gtk theming gtk icon and gtk cursor theming option in wcm.
which will do
for example

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Matcha-dark-sea

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Papirus-Dark

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme xcursor-breeze

and for qt settings just give an message to use qt5ct and kvantum-qt5

If any compound option has the name workspace_bindings, the corresponding group-box will have the title "Go To Workspace Bindings". For example, wsets:

Instead, it would be much better if WCM could read the "Short Description" and show it (<_short>...</_short>)
From IRC

<soreau> https://github.com/WayfireWM/wcm/blob/master/src/wcm.cpp#L888
<soreau> must come from here I guess

i found gesture toggle in config file
but there is no mention of this in wcm.
add gesture toggle in every plugin.

The autostart.xml file shipped by wayfire has a few badly formatted lines. Ideally, they should be:

<entry prefix="" type="string">
	<hint>file</hint>
</entry>

Note that the entry type is already defined in the <entry ... > tag as an attribute. When this correction is made, and we open the autostart plugin page, wcm crashes.

PS: this can also be a problem in wfconfig and wcm, but I am not sure.

I submitted wcm for inclusion of Debian, and got the following rejection response:

as the CC 2.0 license is not compatible with DFSG, please remove all icons under this license from the source tarball.

According to https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_1.0_Generic_.28CC_BY_1.0.29 , Debian does not consider CC 1.0 and 2.0 licenses to be compatible with Debian DFSG guidelines. If possible, please replace them with icons of a compatible license as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses (such as CC-BY 3.0 or CC-BY 4.0 licenses).

The following search shows all incompatible icons:

• https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AWayfireWM%2Fwcm+by-sa&type=code

icons/plugins/plugin-blur.svg
icons/plugins/plugin-obs.svg

print key
media keys like play pause next prev
are not detected in wcm

with new commit
wcm crashes when clicked on edit icon.
to edit keybinding manually.
using wf-config = 0.3

The new tiling plugin and autorotate are missing. Would be nice to have them for the 0.3 release, even though the config system will be reworked for 0.4.

Seems like upstream has abandoned the project, so it should probably not be packaged here, unless wcm is using any specific parts of the project.

Most likely it happened after teh commit changing the duration value from number to a string
WayfireWM/wayfire#2202

Output configuration ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Example configuration:

[eDP-1]

mode = [email protected]

layout = 0,0

transform = normal

scale = 1.000000

This is in wayfire.ini

But why cant it be configured using wcm ?

Please add it in wcm

At main.cpp:81, plugins[pos - 1] is accessed, but pos can be 0 so this triggers a crash.

I have just started using wayfire finding it very great but I had a keyboard problem where it was the US keyboard so i changed the setting in the config manager to uk and it didn't work I have just found out that I needed to use the gb option. So I think it would be useful to use a drop-down for the keyboard layout where you can press a letter to filter the list.

Even if I check the Switcher check box (or "Use This Plugin" in plugin setting), it remains turned off, as if settings had not been saved. Adding switcher to plugins = in wayfire.ini works as expected.

When resetting some colors to defaults in WCM, the options don't change. I noticed that resetting works if default color is represented as four numbers in metadata (like in crosshair plugin) and doesn't work if it is represented as #RRGGBBAA.

Describe the bug
WCM doesn't show dynamic-lists bindings as defined by wayfire/vswitcher's metadata xml file.

Symptoms

• Starting WCM does not seem to generate default or placeholder bindings for abs workspace pos in the wayfire.ini config file.
• Opening WCM doesn't show the abs workspace pos dynamic-lists

Expected behavior

• WCM should create abs workspace pos bindings in the ini file.
• WCM should show the dynamic-lists entries with these bindings when opened.

wcm version
git

Currently, wcm reads and writes to only ~/.config/wayfire.ini. It would be nice if the user could choose the configuration file, similar to how wayfire does it.

Coimpiz CCSM is - it is easy to fix just to update desktop file

Now:
Categories=Utility;

To add it to mate-control-cenater
Categories=Utility;Settings;DesktopSettings;