Cycle through available layouts

[Rainer Bode]

Hi, I am on Arch and I use window managers for quite some time now. I came across dkwm though Arcolinux and took an immediate liking.

One thing I liked on other wms - and couldn’t figure out on dk - is the ability to cycle through the available layouts.

Is there a keyboard shortcut?

Many thanks …

[Nate Maia]

There's nothing built in to do this but it could be scripted fairly easily. I'm at work but I'll post something this evening.

[Nate Maia]

I did write a script but it was easier to just make a new command, this is solved in 358a6af

You can do the following dkcmd set layout cycle

[Rainer Bode]

Cool, working greatly, many thanks … I wonder how one would create a script for dk or any wm? I have no idea where I would start or which language I would use. Any suggestions?

[Nate Maia]

If you use a terminal to run commands you’re basically already doing it. I would suggest learning shell (bash specifically), it’s what I started with years ago and it was great.

Start small and simple, I did backups, file conversion, package manager commands, video recording commands, etc. I still use some of my very early scripts

As far as scripting a WM its mostly the same, I can’t speak for others but in dk all the control is done through commands and you can get the current state with dkcmd status type=full num=1

Depends on what you want to accomplish, there’s some examples for scripting dk in /usr/share/doc/dk/scripts if installed through a package manager, or /usr/local/share/doc/dk/scripts if installed manually.

If you do have an idea of what you want to do I can help point you in the right direction.