Border to highlight floating windows

[alewis001]

Hi,

I currently use JankyBorders to highlight the active window. What I'd like to do is use a different colour for when the window is floating compared to when it is tiled. Is that possible to do?

I can use on-focus-changed to run a script but I can't find a way in the aerospace cli to find out whether the window is floating or not. There also doesn't appear to be any mention of any variables passed to on-focus-changed like AEROSPACE_FOCUSED_WORKSPACE is passed to exec-on-workspace-change.

I also suspect there isn't a trigger/event when the window switches between layouts to once again update the border colour accordingly.

Have I missed anything in the docs or is what I want to do simply not possible?

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide.

Cheers,
Alex

[nikitabobko]

but I can't find a way in the aerospace cli to find out whether the window is floating or not

#1161

[alewis001]

Great, thank you. I'll keep an eye on that issue. Is that a task that will likely only get done through contribution or is it something you think you'll pick up? I've not done any swift and I'm not sure how much time I will have to put towards it (I don't want to set any expectations or put anyone else off from picking it up) but I can try to contribute the changes if that's really the only way that task will get done.

To make sure it's clear, I'm absolutely in no way complaining. I'm just assuming you only have so much time to spend on the project and #1161 may be rather low on your list of things to do 😄

[nikitabobko]

Feel free to give it a shot. It's a good-first-issue which should be trivial even for people who are not familiar with Swift.

The hardest part is not forgetting to update the documentation.

[alewis001]

Just in case someone comes across this. I worked on #1161 and that went in to v0.20.0-beta. With that I now have...

on-focus-changed = ['exec-and-forget ~/.config/aerospace/aerospace-borders', 'move-mouse window-lazy-center']

..in aerospace.toml (the important bit is the exec-and-forget). And then I have a script in ~/.config/aerospaces/aerospace-borders which is...

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

if [[ "$(aerospace list-windows --focused --format %{window-parent-container-layout})" == "floating" ]]; then
  borders active_color=0xff94e2d5 inactive_color=0xff494d64 width=8.0
else
  borders active_color=0xffe1e3e4 inactive_color=0xff494d64 width=5.0
fi

HTH

[alewis001]

I should add that if you add the 'exec-and-forget ~/.config/aerospace/aerospace-borders' to the array of commands when switching between floating and tiled iayout, the border can be updated to reflect the window's new layout.