Bar Integration

[schneider-inc]

It would be useful for macOS ricers to be able to integrate Aerospace into macOS bars such as SketchyBar (in my case), so maybe a CLI command to get the current active workspace - and all workspaces for that matter?

[nikitabobko]

Duplicate of #16

[MatthiasGrandl]

I updated my sketchybar config based on the new (as of right now unreleased) list-workspaces command. Maybe this saves somebody a bit of work. it is limited by the event system. obviously space_change only applies to mission control spaces not aerospace workspaces, but for my usecase the front_app_switched works well enough. for some reason there is a small delay when changing spaces though, haven't debugged that yet.

sketchybarrc:

for sid in $(aerospace list-workspaces); do
  color="$INACTIVE"
  sketchybar --add item space.$sid left \
    --subscribe space.$sid front_app_switched \
    --subscribe space.$sid space_change \
    --set space.$sid \
    icon="􀀁" \
    background.drawing=off \
    label.drawing=off \
    icon.color="$color" \
    icon.font.size=12 \
    icon.align=center \
    padding_left=0 \
    padding_right=6 \
    click_script="aerospace workspace $sid" \
    script="$PLUGIN_DIR/aerospace.sh $sid"
done

plugins/aerospace.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SID=$1
FOCUSED=$(aerospace list-workspaces --focused)
bg="0xff585b70"
if [ "$SID" = "$FOCUSED" ]; then
  bg="0xffb4befe"
fi
sketchybar \
  --animate sin 10 \
  --set $NAME \
  icon.color="$bg"

my bar:

[nikitabobko]

BTW, it would be nice if someone could describe a basic setup with any of the existing bars (sketchybar, uebersicht) in AeroSpace Goodness page. The source code for the page is https:/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/blob/main/docs/goodness.adoc

I don't use bars, that's why I want someone else to do it

Just saying :)

[MatthiasGrandl]

I can take care of that (for sketchybar). I’ll open a PR with a minimal setup, once the CLI is released.

[MatthiasGrandl]

@nikitabobko Should I be able to get updates through the unix socket? For example workspace changes? Then I could implement a proper sketchybar event, which would be nicer than just polling for changes.

[nikitabobko]

@MatthiasGrandl please create an issue. It'd be nice to include the info on what would be the best format to integrate with sketchybar

I can see several ways on how it can be done:

• TOML Config option (similar to on-window-detected) to register the callback on-workspace-changed = 'on-workspace-changed sketchybar update'
• CLI command that adds a callback aerospace on-workspace-changed sketchybar update
• CLI command that prints a new line each time a focused workspace changes: aerospace watch-workspace-changes
• smth else

Note: sketchybar update is a placeholder. I don't know what command sketchybar uses

[MatthiasGrandl]

@nikitabobko done, thank you #76

[MatthiasGrandl]

BTW, it would be nice if someone could describe a basic setup with any of the existing bars (sketchybar, uebersicht) in AeroSpace Goodness page. The source code for the page is https:/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/blob/main/docs/goodness.adoc

I don't use bars, that's why I want someone else to do it

Just saying :)

Done #81 ! It depends on PR #80 to be merged and released.

[diogox]

Unfortunately, from v0.14.0-Beta, the Displays have separate Spaces setting is recommended as disabled and Sketchybar will not start unless it's enabled.

Any other options out there?