I've been working on a wf-msg tool, inspired by swaymsg

[tombh]

Here's the repo: https://github.com/tombh/wf-msg

It's basically just convenience Bash functions wrapping @damianatorrpm's D-Bus plugin. It's unfortunate that that repo isn't being updated, in fact you have to use @soppelmann's fork to get D-Bus working with current Wayfire.

The D-Bus plugin is actually quite inefficient in one important aspect: it doesn't have a "tree" command like swaymsg's get_tree. We can still get all that info, we just have to make multiple calls. So some things can be notably slow.

I know that an IPC socket is being discussed, see #49. There are even some early commits in that direction, but they're not intended for end users.

So I don't know how far I'll go with this, but hopefully we can play with it and see what kind of direction we'd want a D-Bus or IPC tool to go in.