Launcher auto-hiding

If you use launchers you may want if an application started, its launcher will be hide, so you can't start the application twice with a "random mouse click".

I'm using a lua-table to store my launchers.

Concretely I've two launchers, launchers["Qbittorrent"] and launchers["Chromium"]. The keys are the client's class name (because of simplicity).

So, here is the codes.

This function checks the clients and launchers. If there is a client from a launcher, the launcher will unset (nil).

function get_launchers_table()
   tmp_launchers = awful.util.table.clone(launchers)
   local clients = client.get(0)
   for _,client in pairs(clients) do
       if (launchers[client.class]~=nil) then
           tmp_launchers[client.class] = nil
       end
   end
   local ret = {}
   local x,y
   for x,y in pairs(tmp_launchers) do
       if (y~=nil) then
           table.insert(ret,x)
       end
   end
   return ret
end

This is a simple util: checks if what is in table.

function in_table(table,what)
   local item
   for _,item in pairs(table) do
       if (what==item) then
           return true 
       end 
   end 
   return false
end 

Checks if table t1 has same elements as table t2.

function table_equal(t1,t2)
   if (t1==nil) then
       return false
   end
   if ( #t1 ~= #t2 ) then
       return false
   end
   local item
   for _,item in pairs(t1) do
       if (not in_table(t2,item)) then
           return false
       end
   end
   return true
end

Set the wiboxes["bottom_right"] wibox's widgets. If the client list does not change (previous value stored in launchers_to_wibox.

launchers_to_wibox = {}
function set_wibox_widgets()
   local tmp = get_launchers_table()
   if (table_equal(tmp,launchers_to_wibox)) then
       return
   end
   wiboxes["bottom_right"].widgets = {}
   local x
   local nr = 0
   for _,x in pairs(tmp) do
       nr = nr+1
       wiboxes["bottom_right"].widgets[nr] = launchers[x]
   end
   wiboxes["bottom_right"].widgets.layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
   launchers_to_wibox = tmp
end

You can add a timer object with function set_wibox_widgets.

Enjoy!