Sway Session Save

Save and Restore the sway session WIP

References

• Proof of concept for saving a sway session

Dependency

• sway
• swayipc

TODO

I'm also going to implement an Interface for the session saving and reconstruction to be able to use the software with other Tiling-WMs (linke i3 or Hyprland).

1. Version goals

• get a structure and all windows and save it
  • tree as data-structure
  • xdg-shell name as app_id -> .desktop launch via 'gio'
  • xorg name -> test a few programms for it's name
  • save as a session file (json or yaml?)
  • terminals ??
  • create interface for different programms to override reconstruction/state-save
• recreate the tree
  • reconstruct programms based on a basic and a programm-specific routine
  • how to handle multible window instances?
• testing ??!!
• optionally show 'reconstructing-panel' in wlr-layer-shell protocol while script is running
  • block user input?
• optional: get all running programms (like here)

2. Version goals

• handle events from sway itself
  • add entry to tree on new event
  • remove entry
  • save on exit
• testing .. -- -.-