Description

lamp is a very simple daemon-less terminal focus manager. The main goal of this script is to reinvent the focus of your terminals. Few modes are available, each with it's own feature, which can be combined to offer a very unique look. I made this script because I was tired of borders, which don't honestly offer a lot of possibilities and compositors, which are either heavy or rough but especially because I wanted something that made ricing fun again. For now, lamp is only functionnal with art installed and configured. I'll probably support other theme managers in the future. Oh and if you have some ideas for a new mode, open an issue and let me know !

NOTE: The top image is using 3 modes at the same time !

How to install ?

Dependencies

art: used to process everything including colors
pin: used to display errors
xdotool: used to get the name of the focused window

Insctructions

Bash

Add this lines to your .bashrc (or any other shell run commands file):

# Set title of the window (used in lamp)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -en "\033]0;$(tty)\007"'
DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE=true

Installation

Write in your terminal:

git clone "https://gitlab.com/gawlk/lamp.git"
cd lamp
bash install.sh

Window Manager

Now the hardest part, lamp is deamon-less, which means it has to be ran each time a new window is being focused.

Some may disagree but it was a clear choice from the start, feel free to make a deamon if want to !

So the idea is to change the configuration file of your WM and make it run lamp everytime you:

kill a window
focus a window
change the workspace
open a terminal

Basically, you just need to do something like that: ACTION && lamp.

NOTE: it's very likely that lamp doesn't launch properly after opening a terminal but don't worry there is a fix for that. Just instead of TERMINAL && lamp, change it to lamp -t TERMINAL.

One advantage is that you don't need to configure the colors of your terminal after that, they will automatically update themselves.

Here are examples, which illustrates how it can be done for:

2bwm
bspwm

Unfortunately, if your WM supports mouse events and you can't or don't want to disable them, you might have undesired results like not having lamp launched when a window is being focused.

I had a situation like that with 2bwm, which focuses every window that happens to be under the mouse pointer. Since this option can't be disable without changing the source code, I decided to change it and make instead 2bwm launch lamp everytime the focus is set.

I understand that this may not be practical for everybody but there is no other way without a deamon.

Tmux (optional)

If you are a tmux user, you need to add those lines to your tmux.conf:

set -g set-titles off
set -g allow-rename off

NOTE: This fix does not work when tmux is launched directly in your .bashrc. I'm still looking for a solution.

How to use ?

lamp - A daemon-less terminal focus manager

Example: lamp -m "4+2+1"

Arguments:
(none)                  Launch lamp
-f | -force             Force the refresh of the cache
-h | -help              Display this menu and exit
-m | -modes "number"    Set a different mode or modes to load
-t | -terminal "name"   Fix for terminal launch