-- Spawns cmd if no client can be found matching properties
-- If such a client can be found, pop to first tag where it is visible, and give it focus
-- (stolen from awesome wiki: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/index.php?title=Run_or_raise)
--
-- @param cmd the command to execute
-- @param properties a table of properties to match against clients.
-- Possible entries: any properties of the client object
function run_or_raise(cmd, properties)
local clients = client.get()
for i, c in pairs(clients) do
if match_all(properties, c) then
local ctags = c:tags()
if table.getn(ctags) == 0 then
-- ctags is empty, show client on current tag
local curtag = awful.tag.selected()
awful.client.movetotag(curtag, c)
elseif not match_any_value(ctags, awful.tag.selectedlist()) then
-- Client is not on any of the selected tags.
-- Pop to the first one it is visible on.
awful.tag.viewonly(ctags[1])
end
-- And then focus the client
client.focus = c
c:raise()
return
end
end
awful.util.spawn(cmd)
end
-- Returns true if all pairs in table1 are present in table2
function match_all(table1, table2)
for k, v in pairs(table1) do
if table2[k] ~= v then
return false
end
end
return true
end
-- Returns true if at least one value in table1 is also in table2
function match_any_value(table1, table2)
for k1, v1 in pairs(table1) do
for k2, v2 in pairs(table2) do
if v1 == v2 then
return true
end
end
end
return false
end
