How to use result of query inside another command?

[tupini07]

Hello, first of all: thanks for making komorebi!

This would probably be more a question for Autohotkey. I did look through their doc and forums but I could make much sense of what I was reading.

I work with multiple monitors and I was trying to setup autohotkey to perform monitor specific operations by first checking which monitor is the one that's currently focused. For example, in normal powershell I would disable container padding on the current monitor by doing

komorebic.exe container-padding $(komorebic query focused-monitor-index) 0 0

I thought I could do something similar in Autohotkey

CurrentMonitorContainerPadding(workspace, size) {
    Run, komorebic.exe container-padding $(komorebic query focused-monitor-index) %workspace% %size%, , Hide
}

!-::
    CurrentMonitorContainerPadding(0, 0)
return

However this doesn't seem to work (it doesn't do anything). I realize this might not be valid autohotkey syntax.

Does anyone have any pointer as to how to best accomplish this?

Thanks!

edit: I know that I can use komorebic adjust-container-padding to solve the problem I posted above, but this was just an example 😄 the question is how can I include the output of a query as input to another command.

[LGUG2Z]

Hey @tupini07,

In this particular situation, I believe you may be able to use this command which targets the focused workspace before changing the padding:

Adjust container padding on the focused workspace

Usage: komorebic.exe adjust-container-padding <SIZING> <ADJUSTMENT>

Arguments:
  <SIZING>      [possible values: increase, decrease]
  <ADJUSTMENT>  Pixels to adjust by as an integer

However, for more complex uses of subqueries, I think your best bet will be to wrap the command in a PowerShell script and then use AHK to call the script file.

[tupini07]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Ok yeah that's what I thought, there's no direct way to do it through autohotkey. However, now that you mention it, it shouldn't be too hard for me to create a PowerShell script that accepts a command to run as a string and makes environment variables available for the current monitor idx and similar.