# causes a new browser window to open, even if normally it would open a
# new tab
+
+tmpf=$(mktemp)
+i3-msg -t get_tree | jq -e '.nodes[].nodes[].nodes[].nodes | [.[]] + ( [.[].nodes[]]) | .[] | select(.window_properties.class=="abrowser") | .id' | sort >$tmpf
+
# prefer abrowser
if type -P abrowser &>/dev/null; then
- abrowser "$@"
+ abrowser "$@" &
else
- firefox "$@"
+ firefox "$@" &
fi
+
+# .5 was too fast
+sleep 1
+# debug
+#printf "%s\n" "$*" >> /tmp/a
+if (( $# == 0 )) && ! i3-msg -t get_tree | jq --stream -r 'select(.[1]|scalars!=null) | "\(.[0]|join(".")): \(.[1]|tojson)"' | grep 'marks.0: "abrowser"$' &>/dev/null; then
+ # explaining this jq nonsense. when the abrowser window starts, it
+ # might be in a vertical split container, and then it is nested down
+ # another level. the best way I could find to look in both levels was
+ # to get both, then combine them with + (and you have to turn them
+ # into a single array instead of a list of arrays with [.[]], or else
+ # it will add the arrays a bunch of times and give several results.
+ # comm gives us just the new id.
+ id=$(i3-msg -t get_tree | jq -e '.nodes[].nodes[].nodes[].nodes | [.[]] + ( [.[].nodes[]]) | .[] | select(.window_properties.class=="abrowser") | .id' | comm -23 - $tmpf | head -n1)
+ rm -f $tmpf
+ if [[ $id ]]; then
+ i3-msg "[con_id=$id] mark abrowser"
+ fi
+fi
+
+wait