dotfiles/config/i3/icons.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Taken from https://gist.github.com/bgavran/462c9391a49a835546f9bf9c15ce56f9
# and slightly modified by me (https://github.com/SijmenSchoon).
#
# This script listens for i3 events and updates workspace names to show icons
# for running programs.  It contains icons for a few programs, but more can
# easily be added by inserting them into WINDOW_ICONS below.
#
# Dependencies
# * xorg-xprop - install through system package manager
# * i3ipc - install with pip


import i3ipc
import subprocess as proc
import re


# Add icons here for common programs you use.  The keys are the X window class
# (WM_CLASS) names and the icons can be any text you want to display. However
# most of these are character codes for font awesome:
#   http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
FA_CHROME = "\uf268"
FA_CODE = "\uf121"
FA_DOWNLOAD = "\uf019"
FA_FILE_PDF_O = "\uf1c1"
FA_FILE_TEXT_O = "\uf0f6"
FA_FILES_O = "\uf0c5"
FA_FIREFOX = "\uf269"
FA_PICTURE_O = "\uf03e"
FA_SPOTIFY = "\uf1bc"
FA_TERMINAL = "\uf120"
FA_TELEGRAM = "\uf3fe"
FA_CUBE = "\uf1b2"
FA_PAINT_BRUSH = "\uf1fc"
FA_BOOK = "\uf02d"
FA_FOLDER = "\uf07c"
FA_CALENDAR = "\uf133"
FA_BEZIER_CURVE = "\uf55b"
FA_VECTOR_SQUARE = "\uf5cb"
FA_VOLUME_UP = "\uf028"

WINDOW_ICONS = {
    "Firefox": FA_FIREFOX,
    "Gnome-terminal": FA_TERMINAL,
    "chromium": FA_CHROME,
    "code": FA_CODE,
    "emacs": FA_CODE,
    "evince": FA_FILE_PDF_O,
    "feh": FA_PICTURE_O,
    "gimp-2.10": FA_PAINT_BRUSH,
    "gnome-calendar": FA_CALENDAR,
    "google-chrome": FA_CHROME,
    "inkscape": FA_PAINT_BRUSH,
    "jetbrains-pycharm": FA_CODE,
    "jetbrains-webstorm": FA_CODE,
    "libreoffice": FA_FILE_TEXT_O,
    "mupdf": FA_FILE_PDF_O,
    "nautilus": FA_FOLDER,
    "notion-nativefier-102b2f": FA_BOOK,
    "pulseeffects": FA_VOLUME_UP,
    "slic3r-prusa3d": FA_CUBE,
    "spotify": FA_SPOTIFY,
    "subl": FA_CODE,
    "subl3": FA_CODE,
    "telegram-desktop": FA_TELEGRAM,
    "transmission-gtk": FA_DOWNLOAD,
    "thunar": FA_FOLDER,
    "urxvt": FA_TERMINAL,
}


i3 = i3ipc.Connection()


def xprop(win_id, property):
    """
    Return an array of the values for the given property from xprop.

    Requires xorg-xprop to be installed.
    """
    try:
        prop = proc.check_output(['xprop', '-id', str(win_id), property],
                                 stderr=proc.DEVNULL)
        prop = prop.decode('utf-8')
        return re.findall('"([^"]+)"', prop)
    except proc.CalledProcessError:
        print(f"Unable to get property for window '{win_id}'")
        return None


def icon_for_window(window):
    classes = xprop(window.window, 'WM_CLASS')
    if classes:
        for cls in classes:
            if cls in WINDOW_ICONS:
                return WINDOW_ICONS[cls]
        print('No icon available for window with classes: %s' % str(classes))
    return '*'


def rename():
    """Rename all workspaces based on the present windows."""
    for workspace in i3.get_tree().workspaces():
        icons = "  ".join(icon_for_window(w) for w in workspace.leaves())

        new_name = f"{workspace.num}"
        if icons:
            new_name += f": {icons}"

        i3.command(f'rename workspace "{workspace.name}" to "{new_name}"')


def on_change(i3, e):
    """Call rename() on relevant window events."""
    print(f"{e.change}")
    if e.change in ['new', 'close', 'move']:
        rename()


def main():
    rename()

    i3.on('window', on_change)
    i3.main()



if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()