Add or remove windows from suckless' tabbed

tabc.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Usage:
# tabc.sh <command>
# Commands:
#    add <direction-of-tabbed> <window-id> - Add window to tabbed
#    remove <window-id> - Remove window from tabbed
#    list <tabbed-id> - List all clients of tabbed

#
# Functions
#

# Get wid of root window
function get_root_wid {
	xwininfo -root | awk '/Window id:/{print $4}'
}

# Get children of tabbed
function get_clients {
	id=$1
	xwininfo -id $id -children | sed -n '/[0-9]\+ \(child\|children\):/,$s/ \+\(0x[0-9a-z]\+\).*/\1/p'
}

# Get class of a wid
function get_class {
	id=$1
  if [ -z $id ]; then
    echo ""
  else
	  xprop -id $id | sed -n '/WM_CLASS/s/.*, "\(.*\)"/\1/p'
  fi
}

#
# Main Program
#

cmd=$1
if [ $cmd = "add" ]; then
  	tabbedid=$(bspc query -N -n $2)
  	if [ -z $tabbedid ]; then
    		tabbed &
    		sleep 0.1
    		tabbedid=$(xdotool search --class tabbed | tail -n1)
  	fi
fi

case $cmd in
	add)
		wid=$3
		xdotool windowreparent $wid $tabbed
		;;
	remove)
		wid=$2
    		tabbedid=$(bspc query -N -n focused)
		xdotool windowreparent $wid $(get_root_wid)
		;;
	list)
		tabbedid=$2
		get_clients $tabbed
		;;
esac

Thank you that seems like exactly what I was looking for

Edit: I just tested this and it works assuming that the window is already open it works but if it hasn't it still puts more in a situation where I need to sleep until the window has opened.

Edit Edit: Actually I think I was just doing something else wrong

Hey Brodie,

I watched your video on adding tabbed to bspwm and I was following your gist but I found some errors in your current gist. I had to refer back to the gist that was in the video which seemed accurate.

I think the following line is supposed to be at line 58 which is under the remove block,
if [ -z $(tabc list $tabbedid) ]; then xdotool windowkill $tabbedid fi

I found that a variable is misspelled, xdotool windowreparent $wid $tabbed is supposed to be xdotool windowreparent $wid $tabbedid
Adding a focused window to west/east or left/right is not working is due to the target window not being a instance of tabbed.

Some hints:

• There's no need to sleep after calling tabbed, calling tabbed -d will return the wid of the created window (also I believe xdos -m parameter causes it to wait until there's a window that matches). Nonetheless I don't get what you need $tabbedid for, because you never use it?!
• Using the syntax name() { offers way better compability with older shells than function name {. Especially because you specified /bin/sh as interpreter, your script may not run in other people's environments.
• Quoting variables prevents globbing and word splitting. I recommend shellcheck for linting your scripts :)

Instead of tabbed &; sleep 0.1; tabbedid=$(xdotool search --class tabbed | tail -n1), you can just do tabbed &; tabbedid=$! ($! is the process ID of the last run process)

You can actually just change tabbed to tabbed -c in the add cmd, which is a builtin param for tabbed that auto closes when the last tab is closed.

Hello!
To get win id without sleep I use:

tabbedid=$(tabbed -c -d)

-d detaches tabbed from the terminal and prints its XID to stdout.

Here is a solution to retrieve the window id without using sleep. Hope it helps: plmi/dotfiles@71d1fd5#diff-126a1e1993e27b2e10ae75f52c689bcacc01f9dc135d345f4f910975126e43d1

@BrodieRobertson i would love to have the scirpt working again! Can you please help?

very annoying error! i think it has someting to do with being posix compliant.

.config/bspwm/tabc.sh: 15: function: not found
0x6bf
.config/bspwm/tabc.sh: 17: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

I was just looking for (almost)this, clicked the top ddg result, HUGE fan of your stuff
too bad it require the use of bspwm as I never really used that one, I'm still on awesome and loving it to the point of being unable to move to Wayland (there are other reasons too, like no x over ssh stuff which is something I actually find quite useful at times)